The Lantern Bug-
A supposed evolved form of the typical lightning bugs (fireflies), lantern bugs span to about 9 inches in length- to around the size of an average housecat. They tend to be passive creatures; vegetarians which feed off of exclusively fruit and other such plants which give off sweet nectars.
As their size may suggest, lantern bugs are particularly lazy animals, and over the courses of their years and years of evolution, have lost the help of their shells to hide their wings, as well as to defend themselves. They are large enough, however, to not have many natural predators- which was possibly the reason why their shells were lost in the first place.
During the colder seasons, lantern bugs will burrow underground, clustering together in large nests to maintain warmth. If one identifies some sort of blinking light- natural, or from other sources- it won’t hesitate to flash back at it; a supposed trait from their lesser, smaller, devolved species Speedpaint
