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*For a defined list of Egg types, go to Egg.*

The **Beetle Egg** is a petal in florr.io. The petal itself is very weak and doesn't deal any damage, but a friendly mob will be “hatched” after a certain amount of time.

## Appearance

A pale yellow oval with a dark outline. With every increasing rarity, the egg will slightly increase in size.

The mobs spawned by the petal look like their hostile versions but with a flower-colored yellow.

The egg will spawn a friendly mob after the petal spawns, which will be a beetle. These beetles will attack all mobs and hostile flowers, but hostile mobs are prioritized, then neutral mobs, then passive, then finally flowers.

The beetles can be healed by leaves, similarly to how flowers can heal other teammate flowers with healing petals, such as roses, dahlias, and shells.

Upon hatching, spawns a friendly beetle. This beetle will follow the user around, attacking any nearby hostile players or mobs with their aggressive behavior, though it'll return to the user if the user is too far away. Once the mob dies, the petal goes on its respawn timer.

## Drops

### Purchasing

On certain days, the petal can be purchased in the Shop. Beetle Egg originally had a scaling factor of 1, but it was changed to 2 at some point between February 27th and March 2nd.

*Note: the price depends on how much money is spent. This table shows the prices assuming the lowest and highest amounts of money that can be spent. Also, the stars awarded per ad change depending on the player's highest rarity petal. The table shows the lowest per ad (1) and the highest per ad (3). For more information, go to this page: Stars*

## Strategy

Eggs are a viable choice, especially in the early rounds, as there area affected is huge and the spawns track other passive or neutral mobs that would otherwise be unseen. However, they fall off quickly as the respawn time affect the capability of coping with a large swarms of mobs.

As the mobs can move, eggs serve as a ranged petal. Unlike other ranged petals, these do not have to be aimed, meaning it's good for less-skilled players. They have high burst damage like the Missile but less DPS. Just remember that hostile mobs do target them on sight, possibly attracting more attention than necessary.

Leaves can be used to heal these mobs, however, unless it is a mythic egg spawn, the friendly mobs will likely be slain too fast for the leaves to actually make contact with them, thus generally making the strategy of leaves and eggs redundant, unless you are using a Mythic+ egg, where the beetle is able to tank much more damage than the other mobs the lower-rarity eggs spawn.

Compared to Ant Eggs and Mysterious Stick, the other two summoner petals, Beetle Egg takes the least time to hatch to a "pet", meaning that it will only take the least time to protect both yourself and the egg, meanwhile the Ant Eggs need much more time to hatch and Sticks is always needed to be protected. The "beetle pet" also has average stats, which means it can deal with most mobs and survive with a little hp, or can heavily injure the mobs after dying. These characteristics make it a good choice for beginner summoners. However, only 1 Beetle Egg can spawn 1 Beetle at a time, so it can be considered as having the least total damage and hp.

### **Garden**

* Egg can be used to fend off Hornet at a range. Egg users should try to take them out one by one. Letting all the eggs hatch at the same time will lead to them all dying at the same time, leaving the user vulnerable.
* A group of eggs can quickly destroy an Ant Hole without risking direct confrontation with the ants.
* Players can also use a full ultra egg build to fend off mobs way easier compared to mythic eggs. However, due to the large hitbox a mythic beetle has, users could not hatch all their eggs at the same time in ant holes due to having the same ant hole size when it is entered in size no matter what ant hole's rarity it is, and the usage respawn time is also quite slower compared to mythic eggs. The only way to combat this is to constantly switch their ultra egg build to their secondary build where players can also revive dead teammates.

### **Desert**

* Egg can kill Sandstorms with ease, which is especially useful for Sandstorm farming, where the player can stay away from the Sandstorms while the mobs do the dangerous work. However, be careful when dealing with Legendary+ Sandstorms, as they are faster and have bigger hitboxes, which can surprisingly charge toward and hit you.

### **Ocean**

* Egg can reduce risk of contacting Jellyfish.
	+ Be aware that the jellyfish's lightning attack can harm multiple friendly mobs at once. The spawned mobs can also cause the lightning to chain onto the player when they'd otherwise be out or range.
	+ A horde of jellyfish will kill friendly mobs before they have the chance to make contact with them, rendering them useless.
* Eggs can deal with otherwise hard to hit Crabs.
* Eggs can deal with Starfish, but it may not deal enough damage to fully kill them. The Starfish will then heal while the egg goes through its long cooldown.

### **Ant Hole & Fire Ant Burrow**

* Beetle Eggs are very helpful for destroying and blocking ants around you, preventing yourself from being ambushed in most cases. Make sure your Beetle is on the hole/burrow, otherwise, the egg will be on cooldown.

### **PvP**

#### Using

* Slow down chasing enemies by unleashing mobs against them, dealing knockback and damage.
* Eggs are bad once they start chasing the player since it's unlikely they'll be able to deal body damage with them.
* The spawned mobs target other mobs over flowers, so try to fight in areas without any distractions.
* If you have mythic eggs, there are a couple viable strategies.
	+ One is to use webs to slow down players, which puts them in prime position to be killed by the beetles.
	+ Another is to use bubbles to push the beetles into players. Just know that ramming builds can withstand getting hit by the beetle and can heal when not being attacked, so webs would be more effective.

#### Against

* It's best to not kill the mobs. Rather, the attacker should lead them into a herd and have them chase them. This will make them unable to damage the attacker as long as they keep moving.
	+ Killing the mobs will cause more to respawn in the perfect position to ram the player, dealing heavy damage and knockback.
* Try to lure the player who is spawning them into a place with lots of mobs to distract the spawns.
* If the player is using mythic eggs, it is actually best to kill the beetles, since the respawn is quite long. Once the egg spawns, destroy it as fast as possible, to avoid a new beetle from spawning.
* Use Powder to run away from the mob. The powder petal can outrun the mob way quicker than a pet mob. Be warned that webs will significantly slow the user down by a ton so be careful and examine whether they have webs or not.
* Use Lightning, as the attack will bounce from the mobs to the player who summoned them.

## Trivia

* Beetle Eggs, Ant Eggs, and Sticks are the only petals to spawn friendly mobs.
* When eggs are on cooldown or have hatched mobs, they do not count as a petal orbiting the flower, thus causing the distance between other petals to increase. It is the only petal to do so, however petals like light and pollen actually decrease the distance between petals.
	+ This can leave the user more vulnerable to attacks.
* The legacy Florr.io and older re-released Florr.io versions did not spawn mobs that were re-colored to be yellow, but rather looked identical to their hostile counterparts.
* Mythic egg has gone through several reworks, first spawning 2 rare hornets per petal, then 2 epic beetles, and now, currently, a single legendary beetle.
	+ Currently, the mythic+ egg timer of spawning the beetle is very long, so it’s not very viable in non-pvp situations, unless used in masses.

* Summoned mobs will deal damage to other players' summoned mobs. This is to prevent huge numbers of summoned mobs from taking up entire zones.
* Beetle egg at higher rarities grow in size, it is hard to see it until you compare a common beetle egg with a super one. making this petal the only petal to change at all rarities.
* Multiple players have bought Super Eggs from the shop, making this the first super petal to be obtained by a player.