#fictional insect

Drew this a little while ago for a fic I've been working on for some time (and have just finished, more or less!), mostly known as 'Bio-nerd Tech & Artist Cross' so far. Thank you @crankyfossil for brainstorming space-bugs with me!

For anyone who can't read my aurebesh handwriting, or don't wanna take the time to look it all up, I've written it out in plain English below the cut.

I started a monthly D&D campaign at an environmental center I am on the board for. The campaign is completely homebrew with a map I designed based on the wetland that the environmental center is located at. I throw in a lot of native animals and creatures from the D&D monster manual, but I've also been throwing in some random new creations as well.

I thought it would be fun to share them here. Feel free to throw them into your own games if you like. These two aren't too fancy stat wise, they were just something pretty I wanted as a rare creature the party had to save from poachers in our second session.

Dancer Butterfly

Uses the same stats as a regular D&D butterfly, except the Dex is 16 (+3)

Deep blue with accents of shimmering gold. These butterflies have elongated apexes of their hind-wings that look like ribbons. Their movements are quick and they spin as they fly creating a dancing motion in the air. They have adapted this unique movement to make it easier to feed from their preferred food source, Taunting Milkweed.

The wings of a dancer butterfly can be ground down for a potion ingredient, but many wings would be needed. There are other more common ingredients that are more potent and useful. The Dancer Butterfly is most commonly desired for their ascetic alone and are often poached/hunted for collections in private gardens or in a pinned display.

Taunting Milkweed

Tall flowers with a cluster of red flowers that come from a single bud. Each flower is streaked with delicate lines of gold as well as a sparkling gold pollen that matches the gold on the Dancer Butterfly, that almost exclusively eats nectar from Taunting Milkweed. The stems of the plant are very loose yet strong which causes them to tilt and move easily in the wind. The Dancer Butterfly adapted to feed from the erratic movements it makes.