Flame beetles lived in Kashyyyk's "multilayered deathtrap" ecosystem. Ranging from 4 to 12 cm long, these pests could deliver an extremely painful bite. The dangerous potential of these creatures came not from their bite though, but their ability to spontaneously combust. This event normally occurs throughout a whole swarm of over 100 beetles; each beetle exploding with the effect of a fragmentation grenade. In 1 ABY a spacer found a specimen of this species in a storage room of the Mensix Mining Facility on Mustafar.