Crops, plant matter

Follows the mother.

Screechers are so called because of the raucous noises they make with their bodies. This noise, created via tymbals that reverberate sound through large cavities in their bodies), is horrifying to non-screechers. They like heat and noise and are known for their summertime rampages. They can disappear like vapor and reappear at will once a day. They are very deceptive.

Screechers (called something like zkritchris in their own tongue) live in coastal cities where they live out their 4 stage cycles, moulting between growth spurts, and generally keeping to themselves, singing their loud, horrifying songs and farming. However, every year, in the summertime, they head out at night into the lands around theirs and terrify the commonfolk, harvesting victims for their yearly sacrifices.