These small, fist sized beetle like creatures are bone white. Tear drop shaped, with six legs and massive mandibles, they use their three toed appendages to puncture and grip metal armor, while their mandibles shred it for consumption. These creatures can be dormant for a very long time, only waking when the equivalent to a suit of plate or chain mail comes within range of their "metal sense" (approximately 10'). While the creatures are small and not terribly strong, they live in colonies and attack in large numbers, overwhelming their opponent. At first, one or two outlying sentries awaken and move toward the metal source, but when they begin to feed, they call to the colony and the true attack begins. The damage they cause to someone wearing their meal can be significant. While in the process of rending and consuming the armor, they often end up taking some flesh with it. Instinct: It has a voracious appitite for metal

• Eats Metal
• When it finds a source of metal, it utters a low frequency noise that calls the rest of the brood - this sound builds as it feeds and in groups of 10 or more, can cause severe nausea