Hibeescus

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1000

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1(0.75 )

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20 days

**“**The colors clearly suggest they're venomous, and pretty.**”**
–Wilson

**“**Why don't you pollinate yourself?**”**
–Willow

**“**They have a scary pointy stinger.**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**Something poisonous hides behind flowers... I'm talking about the bee.**”**
–Wendy

**“**VENOM DETECTED**”**
–WX-78

**“**I recommend an appropriate protection to manipulate their hive.**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**Keep your butt away from my face!**”**
–Woodie

**“**Bugs make me... anxious.**”**
–Maxwell

**“**Its spear looks poisonous!**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**We like your new shirt.**”**
–Webber

**“**A vegetable stinger.**”**
–Warly

**“**Blooming Buzz**”**
–Wormwood

**“**Check this out, a real flying bramble.**”**
–Winona

**“**Sting me and see what poison I reserve you, hyuyu.**”**
–Wortox

**“**Me like their chewy honey, florp.**”**
–Wurt

**“**I should keep one or two kilometres of distance between us.**”**
–Walter

**“**Some sort of plant just grew on that bee!**”**
–Wanda

**“**Pretty, but don't mess with them!**”**
–Wirlywings

**Hibeescus** are a variant of Mosquitoes found around the Cherry Stone. They live in Beehives infected by an Ivyscus.

Players can manually infect their Bee Boxes by planting Cherry Gems of the Cherry Forest around them, bees pollinating these flowers will be immediately infected and grow the Ivyscus on their hive which will now spawn Hibeescus instead and allow collection of Flowers.

Due to their wet body, all types of Hibeescus are twice more invulnerable to fire damage.

## Behavior

Hibeescus are hostile Mobs and will act as classic Bees at the difference that they will turn hostile during Winter. However they tend to attack normal Butterflies who get too close and fight to death without looting anything from both sides, making it difficult to keep both types of insects and flowers in the same world.

They apply poison when successfully attacking an insect target and loose their stingers after applying it, preventing them from attacking again and will die overtime. Players wearing a Cookie Cutter Cap will prevent both poison and stinger loss.

## Poison

Hibees poison is applied by Hibeescus, Cherrylings and the Hibees Queen. Each of them apply a different amount of poison stacks (3, 1 and 10 respectively) to the target if it isn't already poisoned.

While the target is poisoned, only one third of the stacks will be added to the previous amount from new poisonous attacks (+1, +0.4 and +3.4).

The poison has a base duration of 120 seconds. Each time a new stack of poison is applied, 70% of the remaining time is added, extending the poison duration.

Each stack of poison deals 7 damage every 0.1 second to players, or triple to other mobs. Merms and structures are immune to Hibees poison. Wormwood takes x5.5 more damage from the stacks and Walter takes thrice as less.

The poison can be cured by eating Bloomy Honey or Bloomy Taffy, which both reduce the amount of poison stacks by 15 and 45 respectively.

## Hunting

Hibeescus can be captured with Bug Nets to be murdered in the inventory or attacked with the same pattern as bees, triggering a riposte from the rest of the hive in both scenarios which can cause significant damage due to their poisonous nature if not dealt with a lot more precaution.

Wearing Cookie Cutter Cap or negating the whole damage of an attack with the help of the Battle Helm or such will prevent incoming poison, so these items are to be considered while dealing with Hibeescus.

They can be quickly dealt with by the help of Torches or other fire damage sources since Hibeescus take double damage while standing or covered in fire. Their Ivyscus also burns relatively fast compared to hives or anything else, making it easy to cleanse honey farms from Hibeescus infection by burning them and extinguishing the rest, however, the same result can be achieved by using a Razor but this will release a last swarm to attack the player, possibly infecting the hive or bee box back if they aren't all killed immediately of beforehand.

Below is the number of hits it takes with each weapon to kill a Hibeescus when playing with characters with a default damage modifier. The Weather Pain is not included due to the random nature of its projectile.

It takes 10 blasts to freeze a Hibeescus with an Ice Staff and 10 Sleep Darts to put Hibeescus to sleep.