Verpine

"Bee-ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo..."

- Verpine language

The Verpine were a species of sentient, semi hive-minded insects that could communicate with one another through the use of radio biofrequencies through a special organ within their bodies, as well as their long, slender antennae. Despite the fact that radio waves can only travel at the speed of light, somehow any one Verpine could be in constant communication with the entire rest of his or her race, no matter where in the galaxy they were.

Barabels and Kubaz loved the taste of Verpine meat. Verpine whose antennae were broken almost always became criminals, killers, and planet-destroyers. At least one Verpine Jedi Knight survived Order 66 by hacking up (and possibly eating) the clone troops assigned to kill it...