A firebeetle was a carnivorous beetle that subsisted on flesh and inhabited Taanab. Roughly thirty years prior to the Clone Wars, these creatures were eradicated from the inhabited regions of Taanab. However, they persisted in the more isolated regions of the planet, such as the Ba-Taanab Peninsula. In 43 BBY, the Jedi Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi experienced a near-fatal encounter when he plunged into a pit filled with firebeetles, narrowly escaping without injury. Subsequently, in 22 BBY, he had a dream that featured them.