Glowfly

**“**A light aflight.**”**
–Wilson

**“**Looks slimy.**”**
–Willow

**“**Is light bug.**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**A small light in a dark world.**”**
–Wendy

**“**IT IS RELEASING PHOTONS**”**
–WX-78

**“**A bioluminesce..a biolouminesne...a...abioluiminecs....A BIOLUMINESCENT insecta.**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**Thanks for lightin' the way, buddy.**”**
–Woodie

**“**Disgusting, but helpful.**”**
–Maxwell

**“**The loomey-ness of this pterodactyl is inspiring!**”**
–E. Gadd

**“**Fly free, small friend.**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**A nice bug. Like me!**”**
–Webber

**“**A phosphorescent fool!**”**
–Warbucks

**“**I think we should try to fold into one of those.**”**
–Toad Rescue Squad

**“**NO WOBY DONT**”**
–Walter

**“**I could lay down and watch them all day.**”**
–Walani

**“**Light the way, mon amie.**”**
–Warly

**“**A fly'o'glow!**”**
–Woodlegs

**“**OOH OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!**”**
–Wilbur

**“**IS'T A BUG O' GLOWY BUTT**”**
–Wilba

**“**Bzzter with bright peepers**”**
–Wormwood

**“**A flyer and a glower. Like me!**”**
–Wheeler

**“**Like a flying lightbulb.**”**
–Winona

**“**That light, so bright! So light, such bright!**”**
–Wortox

**“**Nice scales, florp.**”**
–Wurt

**“**aw what a a cute little crteaturre**”**
–Mario

**“**It creeps me out.**”**
–Huey

**“**GLOW!
GLOW!

GLOW!**”**

–Links

**“**I wish I could glow.**”**
–Shy Bandit

A **Glowfly** is a passive mob found in the Overgrown Garden Biome in the Ruins. It spawns from Exotic Flowers.

Glowflies have a 10% chance to drop a Light Bulb when killed. Glowflies can be caught using a Bug Net, turning it into an inventory item much like Bees. Murdering the item form places one Light Bulb in the inventory. Effectively, at the cost of using a Bug Net, a 100% drop chance for a Light Bulb can be guaranteed.

They will be instantly killed if they fly through the Noxious Cloud created by Bug B'Gone or Winona.

Whenever the Nightmare Cycle is near its peak, the Glowflies will begin to cocoon around nearby Great Leafy Stalks. When the Nightmare Cycle reaches its peak, the cocoons will all hatch at once into various types of Beetles.

Glowfly spawning can be stopped entirely for 20 days by killing the Glowfly Mother.

## Rabid Beetle

### DebugSpawn

`"rabid_beetle"`

**“**Looks deranged.**”**
–Wilson

**“**What are you so mad about?**”**
–Willow

**“**Wolfgang will stomp bad beetle!**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**As rabid as death itself.**”**
–Wendy

**“**YOU HAVE EXCESSIVE FACIAL HAIR**”**
–WX-78

**“**Certainly no species I know of!**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**Seems mighty angry.**”**
–Woodie

**“**What is he all worked up about?**”**
–Maxwell

**“**Heh heh! Seems like it gets its facial hair by using artificial sweeteners!**”**
–E. Gadd

**“**Evil beast. Yöu have met yöur match!**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**That guy's got a lot of energy!**”**
–Webber

**“**Virulent vermin!**”**
–Warbucks

**“**Kinda boring...I wish there were 5 of them all stacked together.**”**
–Toad Rescue Squad

**“**Woof!**”**
–Walter

**“**Dude, you need to chill!**”**
–Walani

**“**It is like me when I am hungry.**”**
–Warly

**“**An ornery buggie.**”**
–Woodlegs

**“**ooaaha!**”**
–Wilbur

**“**FULL OF SOUND AND FURY**”**
–Wilba

**“**Why so mad, Bzzter?**”**
–Wormwood

**“**Probably just agitated because it can't fly well.**”**
–Wheeler

**“**Lady bug dumbass**”**
–Winona

**“**Quit that yappin', or you're gettin' a trappin'!**”**
–Wortox

**“**Tried to open, but screamed at me, florp.**”**
–Wurt

**“**HRRNG!
HRNGGNG!
HRRNGGG!**”**

–Links

A **Rabid Beetle** is a hostile Mob found in the Overgrown Garden. It spawns from Glowfly Cocoons at the peak of the Nightmare Cycle.

Rabid Beetles prefer to attack in groups, and are much more of a threat in said groups.

## Rapid Beetle

### DebugSpawn

`"rapid_beetle"`

**“**Why's in he such a rush?**”**
–Wilson

**“**He's faster than my flames can spread!**”**
–Willow

**“**Wolfgang can run faster!**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**Should I even try?**”**
–Wendy

**“**LIKE YOU HAVE ANYWHERE IMPORTANT TO BE.
OH, DON'T WANT TO BE LATE FOR "BEETLE SUNDAY" WITH THE BOYS.
ASSHOLE.**”**
–WX-78

**“**How curious, this insect appears to have some hedgehog traits.**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**Looks just like me when i'm goosin'.**”**
–Woodie

**“**Look, I thought it would be funny, okay?**”**
–Maxwell

**“**The fastest föe I've ever föught!**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**I bet we could go that fast, if we used all of *our* legs!**”**
–Webber

**“**For the love of god please help me.**”**
–Warbucks

**“**If I was on my surfbaord I coudl cathc you.**”**
–Walani

**“**It looks like me when I am drinking coffee.**”**
–Warly

**“**E's fast as hell and it makes me feel inadequate.**”**
–Woodlegs

**“**SONIC SPEED**”**
–Wilba

**“**Fast Bzzter, weee!**”**
–Wormwood

**“**You're fast, but I'm faster.**”**
–Wheeler

**“**Fast lil fucker.**”**
–Winona

**“**Those feet, so fleet! I am going to sleet**”**
–Wortox

A **Rapid Beetle** is a Rabid Beetle variant that has a 20% chance of hatching from a Cocoon instead of a Rabid Beetle. Rapid Beetles are much faster than Rabid Beetles, and require speed boosts in order to be kited.

If the player gets far away enough from a Rapid Beetle that's chasing them, it will perform a spindash, propelling itself towards the player at an even higher speed than normal.

It has a 1% chance of dropping the Speed Sneakers trinket.

## Parabeetle

### DebugSpawn

`"parabeetle"`

**“**Ugh, I HATE flying bugs!**”**
–Wilson

**“**I could make it fly through the air like a meteor.**”**
–Willow

**“**Wolfgang will break your wings and pick off your legs one by one! Wolfgang will take great pleasure in this!**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**Even with wings, it cannot escape the confines of this cave.**”**
–Wendy

**“**YOU ALREADY HAD WINGS, THIS IS THE STUPIDEST WINDOWS UPDATE I HAVE EVER SEEN**”**
–WX-78

**“**It appears to have two sets of wings... what is the point?**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**Haha, that's relatively similar to me whenever I am partaking in a good goosin'.**”**
–Woodie

**“**I was going to say the Portal 2 line about the eagle piloting a blimp but that's a bit too long for a character quote, y'know? Especially for a mob that's attacking you, you'd have to keep backing away and clicking it to make the quote reappear so you can read the whole thing, and it'd just be annoying and a waste of time and you might walk into more danger while distracted, especially in a biome full of so many different beetles. I will now list all of the beetles:
Rabid Beetles
Rapid Beetles, a Sonic the Hedgehog reference
Parabeetles, a reference to Biddybuds from Super Mario 3D Land
Beetle Stacks, which are also a reference to Biddybuds
Painted Beetles, which are heavily inspired by enemies like Amazee Dayzees, which have very valuable loot but will attempt to run instead of fight.
Well, that's all the Rabid Beetles, now what was I talking about? Oh yeah, character quotes should be relatively short, so that the player doesn't have to keep examining something and get distracted doing so.**”**
–Maxwell

**“**A flying föe!**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**Wow! I wish we could do that!**”**
–Webber

**“**Target practice!**”**
–Warbucks

**“**Those wings are beautiful!**”**
–Walani

**“**Do you think I could milk it?**”**
–Warly

**“**E's got some wind in 'is sails. Arr' those sails?**”**
–Woodlegs

**“**WILBA ANGRY, WILBA SMASH**”**
–Wilba

**“**Bzzter, bzzt bzzt!**”**
–Wormwood

**“**Hey, could I hitch a ride?**”**
–Wheeler

**“**You're cute, I'll give you that.**”**
–Winona

**“**You fly so high! Everywhere I look, you fill the "sky!"**”**
–Wortox

A **Parabeetle** is a Rabid Beetle variant which has a 10% chance of spawning from a Cocoon instead of a Rabid Beetle. While Rabid Beetles can be ditched pretty easily by getting them stuck on the environment, Parabeetles have wings and are able to fly over any obstacles in their way.

If the player attacks them with Shears or a Rock Pikmin, their wings will be clipped off and they will fall to the ground and function identically to regular Rabid Beetles.

## Beetle Stack

### Special Ability

They're stacked.
Can withstand 5 hits from any source.

### DebugSpawn

`"beetletower"`

**“**Five is better than one!**”**
–Wilson

**“**Five is better than two!**”**
–Willow

**“**Five is better than three!**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**Five is better than four!**”**
–Wendy

**“**FIVE IS FIVE**”**
–WX-78

**“**Five is inferior to six!**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**Five is worse than seven!**”**
–Woodie

**“**Five is worse than eight!**”**
–Maxwell

**“**mrrowwwww! (heh heh, that'll fool em'!)**”**
–E. Gadd

**“**Five is wörse than nine!**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**Five is worse than ten!**”**
–Webber

**“**Five is worse than fourteen!**”**
–Warbucks

**“**HELL YEAH!**”**
–Toad Rescue Squad

**“**Five is worse than...1, I think?**”**
–Walter

**“**Five is worse than eleven!**”**
–Walani

**“**Five is worse than twelve!**”**
–Warly

**“**Five be worse than thir'teen!**”**
–Woodlegs

**“**mmmfrfe (he has eaten one of the bugs)**”**
–Wilbur

**“**FIVE IS WORSE THAN SIXTEEN!**”**
–Wilba

**“**Five bzzters**”**
–Wormwood

**“**Five is worse than seventeen!**”**
–Wheeler

**“**Five is worse than fifteen!**”**
–Winona

**“**Five, five, I've five!**”**
–Wortox

**“**Five worse than ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN BILLION AND ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN MILLION AND TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO THOUSAND AND TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO**”**
–Wurt

**“**Five is-a better than 3!**”**
–Mario

**“**Five is better than 3!**”**
–Huey

**“**NOOO
OOO

OOOOO**”**

–Links

**“**Five is better.**”**
–Shy Bandit

A **Beetle Stack** is a Rabid Beetle variant which has a 10% chance of spawning from a Cocoon instead of a Rabid Beetle. Because of a mutation, multiple Glowflies are able to share one Cocoon and burst out all together in a stack.

As the Beetles in the stack are stacked high, the player is only able to attack the one at the bottom. The Beetle at the bottom only has 1 hp, and the one above it will fall and take its place once it is killed, effectively allowing the stack to withstand five hits from any source.

## Painted Beetle

### Special Ability

Can hide under stone slabs.
Constantly emanates the Electrodrome[1] theme from Mario Kart 8.

### DebugSpawn

`"panted_beetle"`

**“**HE'S RICH, GET HIM!**”**
–Wilson

**“**I'm going to beat your fuck.**”**
–Willow

**“**Wolfgang will rip you in half and harvest your precious innards!**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**Those riches won't do him any good once he's dead.**”**
–Wendy

**“**WHICH ONE OF US GETS TO BEAT THIS PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLE TO A PULP?**”**
–WX-78

**“**How did it get access to paint down here?**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**I'm gonna pick him up and slap him down onto a stump.**”**
–Woodie

**“**Charlie didn't make that! I did. They're from off of Don't Starve: Hamlet.**”**
–Maxwell

**“**Lets give it a good ol' Shakin'!**”**
–E. Gadd

**“**It is mörally ökay tö kill a beetle as löng as yöu make sure it is rich beförehand.**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**Haha, he's so funny!**”**
–Webber

**“**This beetle seems exceptionally rarer than the others. The hunt is on!**”**
–Warbucks

**“**Careful, don't hit it too hard, it might turn into a black-paint-beetle!**”**
–Toad Rescue Squad

**“**get the fuck over here**”**
–Walter

**“**Whoaaaa, that pattern's far out.**”**
–Walani

**“**It is like me when I am hungry and rainbow.**”**
–Warly

**“**A bug o'many treasures.**”**
–Woodlegs

**“**oohh!**”**
–Wilbur

**“**WILBA LICKETH, WILBA TASTETH THE RAINBOW!**”**
–Wilba

**“**Colorful Bzzter**”**
–Wormwood

**“**Let's rob that bitch!**”**
–Wheeler

**“**Let's rob that bitch!**”**
–Winona

**“**He has an obsession with earthly possessions!**”**
–Wortox

**“**Ugly, but funny, florp!**”**
–Wurt

**“**mama \*\*\*\*er**”**
–Huey

A **Painted Beetle** is a very rare Rabid Beetle variant which only has a 1% chance of spawning from a Cocoon instead of a Rabid Beetle. Rather than chasing you like a Rabid Beetle, a Painted Beetle will attempt to run away and hide under Stone Slabs.

Since they drop one of every gem, Painted Beetles are very valuable, and it may be beneficial for the player to leave the Glowfly Mother alive if they want to farm gems.

## Trivia

* The name "Rabid Beetle" is a portmanteau of "Rabid" and "Beetle."
* Rabid Beetles have mustaches, so they're all related to Wilson and Webber.