Red Costate Tiger Moth

*For the normal variant, see Butterfly*

The Red Costate Tiger Moth is the 13th special creature to be added into the game.

## General Information

Red Costate Tiger Moths are very unique, they will not attack at all. It will heal any friendly creatures that gets hit by its healing snow particles, when it uses its healing ability. It is the third pacifist creature.

It is a flying creature that will never land in battles except inside the attacking or defending nest.

It is **highly recommended** not to kill these creatures.

## Description

Aloa lactinea is predominantly white, with a beautiful crimson border that runs along the wing edges and the thorax. “Costate” refers to the costal margin, which is the entomological term for the upper wing edge.

## Stats

Main article: Creature Stats

Red Costate Tiger Moth's stats relate to how fast it moves toward injured creatures and how quickly it sends out its healing particles. Red Costate Tiger Moths send out healing particles that can heal multiple creatures at once but the most healing is applied to the creature that is most directly hit.

It can be upgraded to a max 60% for health and speed, and 50% for attack rate in the Creature Lab.

* Health
* Attack Rate
* Healing

**Red Costate Tiger Moth Health Stats:** (Shown in bites from a 4-star gold spider)

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**Red Costate Tiger Moth Attack Stats:**

Attack rate refers to how often it sends out bursts of healing particles.

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**Red Costate Tiger Moth Healing Stats:**

Data is based on healing a 3 star normal tarantula, shown with the % of health bar gained from each direct healing burst. Healing percent is based on the average healing done.

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A picture of the full Red Costate Tiger Moth entry can be found below:

## Obtaining

### Defeating

Unlike butterflies or Monarchs, the player needs to wait till it's dawn or daytime so the moth lands. When the moth lands it's an easy simple kill without any soldier losses since the Red Costate Tiger Moth does not attack. It will attempt to heal itself while being attacked which can take the amount of a full daytime span. If the player has few recruited soldiers, they may need to begin attacking immediately at dawn.

## Battles

The Red Costate Tiger Moth is useless in terms of attacking in battles, because it does not attack at all. It cannot be attacked by most creatures in battles either, because it flies and does not land. It can only be damaged by other flying creatures such as the dragonfly, Halloween Pennant, or hornet.

Outside of the colony they fly around and heal creatures in the player's army. Defending moths will fly toward and follow creatures with low health. They will continue to heal themselves and allied creatures until all health is restored to full. This can effectively slow down attacking creatures especially when attack rate is highly upgraded.

It lands and walks on the ground inside the nest though, and it does not heal inside the enemy nest. Therefore, it is only useful outside the enemy nest when battling. For defense inside the colony, it can be used to block the attacking player's view.

The Red Costate Tiger Moth gets destroyed if deployed without support in the enemy nest. Early game, however, the moth could be extremely useful, as low star enemies/creatures do low damage and have low health. This means the moth can heal a bigger portion of a friendly creature's health.

Chrysanthemum does *not* affect this creature.

**Note:** Since defending moths do not land when they are outside of the colony, neither Butterflies/Monarchs nor Moths have to be killed in order to attack the enemy queen during a battle.

## Trivia

* There is a special sound effect for when it heals, just as a bombardier beetle has a sound effect when it attacks.
* Real Red Costate Tiger Moths overwinter, which means being inactive during winter or cold months.