BUTTERBEAST - TIMELINE #37087215
Added 2025-09-16 22:45:06 +0000 UTC(Timeline Tuesday #216)
Butterbeasts are a species of brilliantly colorful insect from a nearby timeline. These creatures are known for their vibrant hues, and from afar they can easily be mistaken for butterflies. However, closer inspection reveals something much more dangerous and unpleasant.
Butterbeasts are small, approximately two inches long with large, delicate wings that they use to flap and flutter about. Their bodies are segmented, and will always alternate between colors regardless of the creature’s variable pigmentations. At the end of this long body is a stinger, and at the front is a strange, three beaked mouth. When the Butterbeast is feeding or biting, a long red tongue will slither out from within this maw.
The element of surprise is a butterbeast’s friend, expecting most people to assume they are actually butterflies so long as they keep moving. They will often enter gardens and hover before plants as though gathering nectar, subtly downplaying the fact they are carnivorous predators. Butterbeasts will snack on other insects, but their main prey are small mammals that are unfortunate enough to be stung by the butterbeast’s tail and succumb to their powerful paralytic agent.
Once its prey is incapacitated, the butterbeast will consume its meal. Human beings are too large for a butterbeast to eat, but the sting of this creature will cause overwhelming numbness in the area for two to three days. These creatures are a terrible nuisance and should be chased out of gardens whenever they are spotted.
