Yanme'e (Earth-5875)

"The flying yanme'e, simply called the Buggers by humans, tend to a hivelike society, eusocial and separated by castes, each with its own tasks, subject to the will of a matriarchal queen."

- - Prophet of Clarity on his Record of Punished Deeds

The yanme'e (Latin Turpis rex, meaning "dishonorable king"), known to humans as Buggers, are a sapient species of flight-capable, carnivorous insectoids native to Palamok. In 1544, the yanme'e became the seventh species to be converted and enslaved into the Covenant after years of resistance. Hive-minded and loyal to their Queens, the yanme'e mostly acted as engineers and repairers for the Covenant when a huragok was not present, although they were also heavily used as flying attackers, who, in swarms, were easily able to overwhelm and slaughter their enemies, something which the Covenant used for their advantage against humanity during the First Contact War.

The Ark and reseeding
Yanme'e evolved from winged tree-dwelling arthropods on Palamok. These arthropods developed motor skills in complexity, which allowed them to generate an appendage of chitin that functioned as an opposable thumb. During the Forerunner-Xenomorph War, the Librarian visited Palamok as a part of the Conservation Measure to save yanme'e specimens and index them in the Ark so they could survive the activation of the Halo Array. After the rings were lighted and all life extinct, the yanme'e, alongside all remaining living species in the galaxy, were returned to their homeworld through Keyships, where they started rebuilding their culture and civilization.