It’s a (altered) Simpsons reference.  Anyways, one of my players will be absent this week, so I’m building a side quest for the rest of the party to work on while he’s away.  I thought a classic “go rescue someone helpless from an evil wizard” scenario would be fun, and started thinking about minions and guardians.  Then, the clouds parted, a beam of light came down, and angels began to sing, as I abruptly remembered a favorite Simpsons reference of a certain player!  

And I don’t care whether wolves can bark or not (for this, since they’re not really wolves anyways after the Wizard’s experiments.  Otherwise I’m pretty militant about not ignoring reality!)

So now I want to give the evil wizard some wolf minions who shoot bees out of their mouths when they bark!  But I could use some help to do that.  One thought I had was to create wolves which could summon swarms of wasps, but how would that work?  Would I need to recalculate CR, or would I use the normal CR for wolves and swarms?  Would summoning the swarm take an action on the wolf’s part, or is it some kind of twisted biological function of a screwed-up Frankenstein anatomy created by the wizard?  And how does the wizard avoid having swarms constantly summoned into the kennel where he keeps his wolves?

One important thing is that they definitely have to be wolves; my players are all pet lovers, so if I used dogs, I think they would skin me alive!

Think about insect plague. Plot twist: It wasn't a wizard with magic wolves... it was a DRUID who IS the magic wolves!

Ooh! What if they can cast the infestation cantrip as part of a multiattack? Some thing like 

multiattack: the wolf that shoots bees makes one bite attack and uses its infestation cantrip if available 

with the spell recharging on a 5-6 or something like that.

edit: reflavored as bees, not other insects, of course, and maybe at 5th level if your players are tough.

Hmmm… things to think about.  I had forgotten about those spells; I’ll have to go look them up.  Thank you guys!