Wasp

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wasp y
HP	13-31
HD	4
XP	126
Speed	15
AC	5
EV	14
Will	16
Attack1	13 (sting: paralyse)
Resistances	rDrown
Vulnerabilities	Poison
Habitat	Land
Intelligence	Insect
Uses	Uses nothing
Holiness	Natural
Size	Tiny
Type	wasp, wasp
Flags	Flying No skeleton

A giant wasp covered with thick plates of yellow chitinous armour. Its deadly venom can render most beings unable to move.

For a list of all arthropods, see list of arthropods.

Useful Info

Wasps are fast, flying insects with an especially nasty poisonous sting; along with dealing damage over time, it also slows you down until you're completely paralyzed. They are thankfully rare, only occasionally appearing in the Dungeon, the Lair, and the Swamp (often emerging from treants or as spriggan rider mounts).

Tips & Tricks

• They're almost harmless if you have poison resistance, but if not, try to take them out from range. They don't have that much HP by the time you meet packs of them.
• Alternatively, their terrible magic resistance makes it easy to affect them with Hexes or status effect-inflicting wands.
• Yellow wasps are vulnerable to poison, so Mephitic Cloud is almost guaranteed to render them confused and easy to defeat, and poison needles will deal heavy damage to them quickly.

History

Wasps were added in 0.16, replacing yellow wasps.