Black wasp

a black wasp
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Sting 2d6 poison

a black wasp
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Sting 2d6 poison
Base level	9
Base experience	206
Speed	15
Base AC	2
Base MR	0
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	300
Nutritional value	100
Size	Medium
Resistances	poison
Resistances conveyed	poison (60%)
A black wasp: can fly. has no hands. is an animal. is poisonous to eat. does not eat. (*) is female. is normally generated hostile. does not appear in Gehennom. normally appears in large groups.
Reference	SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line205

A black wasp is another bee in SLASH'EM, almost exactly the same as the yellow jacket, except that it does twice as much damage. Oddly enough, these have the glyph a, whereas the giant wasp has the glyph a.

Strategy

Given that they appear in large groups in which they can do a fairly large amount of damage due to sheer numbers, one should be careful around these. In SLASH'EM, one should always use telepathy or the : command to make sure that the a around the corner is not in fact a black wasp, as opposed to a less dangerous yellow jacket or killer bee. In combat against these bees, Elbereth can be useful, even if simply written in the dust, just to make them scatter so you can pick them off one by one.