Killer bee

killer bee k
HP	9 - 24
HD	3
XP	63
Speed	20
AC	2
EV	18
Will	12
Attack1	10 (sting: poison)
Resistances	none
Vulnerabilities	Poison
Habitat	land
Intelligence	Insect
Uses	Uses nothing
Holiness	Natural
Size	Tiny
Type	killer bee, killer bee
Flags	No skeleton Flying

A giant bee, bearing a deadly barb which can sting repeatedly.

Useful Info

Killer bees are poisonous flying insects that lives up to their name. They're twice as fast as most characters, attack in swarms, and can quickly inject fatal amounts of poison in lightly-armoured characters. They are found in the middle-Dungeon, especially if you should crack open any vaults with wax walls.

Tips & Tricks

• Never believe that there's just one bee on the floor. They always travel with friends.
• With poison resistance and decent AC, they're nuisances. With only poison resistance, they can be a handful if they surround you. Without either, taking them on in melee is often suicide.
• Poison attacks work wonders here. Mephitic Cloud or Evaporate will make a tightly-clumped swarm slaughter itself, while Ignite Poison just kills every bee in LOS outright. Several repeated applications of Olgreb's Toxic Radiance will take a few more turns but will also eventually kill all bees in your line of sight.
• Bees have relatively low MR, so wands of enslavement can be effective in turning some of them onto your side.
• When things go badly, don't forget about your potion of curing.