#batflies

They often nest in large groups, like normal batflies- but now with a Twist. Since they're about as intelligent as your average scav, they're willing to trade items they may be keeping near their central nesting areas in exchange for food or Rocks. In the region they'd be found in, rocks would be abt as rare as a pearl due to the Greater Batflies picking the area clean for building supplies. Pearls, however, would be in abundance.

They'd be much less trigger happy with spears as well, and much easier to trade with and pass by without a fuss. However, this would be balanced with their reputation being very hard to rank up due to slugcats hunting their kind for actual centuries by now.

Greater batflies have lost most active flying ability due to their large size, but are still quite adept at gliding and using air currents to their advantage to get over large gaps or escape from predators, as well as short bouts of vertical flight to get up to high ledges and platforms.

They build their nests with a thick sap-like secretion from their mouths that hardens into a mix between amber and beeswax. This stuff often has a cousin of the sporepuff's spores or other mushroom-like plants that can dissuade threats growing in it to dissuade centipedes from chowing down on the batflies' house, akin to Macrotermes in the real world.

If they live near an area with scavs the nest will also have learnt that using this secretion to give spears a sharper edge that has an easier time getting centipedes to piss off is a good way of trading with the colonies, and will trade a slugcat some of these 'Amberwax Spears'.

They can come in different morphs!! Some can be iridescent, clear wings like the coffee clearwing moth, maybe even something more like a traditional moth with eyespots that they use for intimidation. They're like irl moths and butterflies, with how different many of them appear. Often a nest will have a 'theme', basically being a dominant gene that makes the whole colony have similar colours, markings, or even wing types.