'Wasp' is an adult female HiveWing who was introduced in The Lost Continent. She formerly ruled as
queen of the HiveWings until the end of The Flames of Hope where she was replaced by Jewel. During her reign, she started the Tree
Wars in an attempt to exterminate the LeafWings and she successfully
gained control of the SilkWings, later forcing them into second-class
citizenship. For the majority of her period as queen, she controlled
nearly all of her HiveWing subjects using the Othermind|breath of evil.
She is currently imprisoned in the Wasp Hive#Flamesilk
Factory|flamesilk factory with her sisters.

## Description

Wasp has black and yellow stripes, black horns, and deep, glittering,
dark, large, and completely black eyes that are surrounded by an oval of
yellow scales. She is enormous, radiating menace, and she has a chilly
voice. Some of her many propaganda posters depict her with stingers
extending from her claws. She also has a long, needle-sharp stinger in
her tail, unknown to nearly everyone, and with the only known use being
for injecting breath of evil into other dragons. She moves quickly,
efficiently, and ruthlessly, like a cobra stalking its prey.

Wasp is also mentioned to have dark green blood, which may be due to her
consumption of the breath of evil. Blue said that she is breathtaking
and superior, and that after seeing her, Lady Cicada never seemed as
scary as Wasp. In The Flames of Hope, her face was melted by Pineapple's
venom.

## Personality

Wasp is often simultaneously thrilled and furious. She is chillingly
malevolent, evil, sharp, dreadful, and considers other dragon tribes to
be dangerous, strange, and terrifying. She has no sense of mercy or
justice. She believes the only way to be safe is through control, and
her thoughts often spiral towards chaos, causing her to kill things in
order to calm down. She thinks that everyone is evil and therefore she
must be the most evil in order to survive. She is vindictive and strikes
back the moment she is struck. The breath of evil describes her as all
poison from the core out.

According to Scarab, being perfectly nasty is Wasp's natural resting
state. Wasp had no qualms about working with the othermind, as she
believes that in order to get the power she wanted, she would have to
work with "monsters" to do it. She displayed a complete lack of care
towards her subjects, as she had no issue leaving Earwig to die on the
island. She preferred capturing dragons as opposed to killing them as
she finds them more useful as soldiers than corpses. Blue said that
trying to imagine life as her was like trying to imagine life as the
sun.

## Biography

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Pre-Series
Wasp was dangerous and
power hungry from the moment she had inherited the throne from her
mother, Cochineal. She wanted all the tribes to bow down to her, and
thus she started cutting down the LeafWings' trees as she believed they
got their power from them. She made various excuses to explain the
disappearances of the trees and lied to the LeafWings whenever they
tried to compromise with her. She later started lying about the contents
of the Book of Clearsight, using it to her advantage to try and convince
the other queens that it was time for the three tribes to be ruled under
one queen. While Queen Monarch gave in to her demands, Queen Sequoia
refused, and asked to see the book herself, and Wasp denied her request.

During this time, a LeafWing named Hawthorn had found a plant that could
be used to mind-control other dragons, the aptly named breath of evil.
At a peace summit held between the two sides, Hawthorn decided to slip
some of the breath of evil into Wasp's food, in hopes that they could
control her. It appeared that the breath of evil had no effect, as Wasp
behaved exactly the same as she did before. Unbeknownst to the LeafWings
at the time, the breath of evil had given Wasp the ability to
mind-control other dragons instead. She used the breath of evil to her
advantage and used it to control the HiveWings.

After this, Wasp started the Tree Wars, a long brutal war which led to
the near-extermination of the LeafWing tribe. During this, she had
managed to deforest most of Pantala, with most of the wood being used in
the creation of the Hives.

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### The Lost Continent Prophecy

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Blue mentioned early in the book that he had seen the queen
only once when she visited Cicada Hive to inspect
Cicada_Hive#Silkworm_Hall|Silkworm Hall. He claimed that she once
paused and stared at him and Luna, giving him the distinct feeling that
"she was trying to decide between adopting them or eating them."

Later, when Blue and Io tried to escape Cicada Hive, Wasp used her
mind-control ability on the HiveWing families in the park, including
Katydid, Bombardier, Aphid, and more, to capture Blue and bring him to
her. The attempt in capturing Blue proved ultimately unsuccessful with
the help of Cricket. She kept the search for them going over several
days, evidently sleeping during the nights.

Outside of the Wasp Hive greenhouses, Swordtail, Blue, and Cricket saw
one that was Queen Wasp's private greenhouse, and no one was allowed in.
They decided it would make a perfect place to hide, as Wasp probably did
not visit the greenhouse on a daily basis and no one else would be
inside it.

When Blue, Cricket, and a disguised Sundew entered Wasp Hive to steal
the Book of Clearsight, they discovered that the Librarian, who occupied
the greatest position in HiveWing history, was being constantly
mind-controlled by Wasp. Sundew was able to take the mind control out of
the Librarian momentarily by using a bullet ant to bite her because they
are known for the most painful sting, and it gave her so much pain that
Wasp's control over her broke. However, while the Librarian helped them
escape with the Book of Clearsight, she suddenly became mind-controlled
again, likely because Wasp did not want to lose her grip on the tribe by
having the secrets of the Book spilled out by the Librarian, or because
she saw that the Librarian was painless through another HiveWing's eyes.

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The Hive Queen
When Blue, Cricket,
Sundew, and Swordtail crept into Jewel Hive, Cricket suspected the
helmeted guards were under Wasp's control. Later, more mind-controlled
guards ambushed Jewel Hive's Chrysalis in the library, though Cinnabar
and Tau covered for the others. Wasp later made her first actual
appearance, searching for Katydid in Scarab's mansion. When Cricket
vandalized Jewel Hive, she was caught by guards controlled by Wasp, and
they threatened to "fix" Cricket. Wasp then "inspected" the eggs inside
the Jewel Hive Nest, with Cricket secretly watching. There, Cricket
found out how Wasp mind-controlled the HiveWings: by poisoning them with
her tail stinger, which was unknown to the tribe, likely because she did
not want dragons figuring it out and hiding their eggs. Cricket figured
poisoning unhatched dragonets was faster and more effective than when
they were grown. Later, Sundew determined the source of Wasp's poison
through Bumblebee's eggshell: the breath of evil plant in the queen's
restricted greenhouse, which Blue later burned down, possibly destroying
Wasp's only source of the breath of evil vine.

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Queen Wasp indirectly appeared in the book when LeafWing
guards appeared in the treetops carrying a Inchworm|HiveWing prisoner
blindfolded and tied up, which prompted Hazel to note that they must be
at the riverside of the jungle already, and Wasp confirmed it by
speaking through the HiveWing's mind, claiming that she would kill them
all and finish what they started. As the prisoner tried to break free,
Wasp continued speaking through his mind, claiming she knew who
Malachite|Cricket's father was and subtly threatened to kill him.

Later, when Hawthorn was revealed to be controlled by the othermind, at
first, Sundew accused Wasp of controlling him, but the othermind
revealed that in reality, Wasp was just controlled by them as well all
along, confirming her to be controlled by the othermind, and not the
other way around.

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The Dangerous Gift
Wasp was
mentioned several times throughout the book. She appeared in Snowfall's
visions and revealed her thoughts and secret paranoia, thinking about
how everyone is different from her, and thus needs to be controlled.
Wasp knew in the vision she was not in control and yelled at the
othermind to stay out of her head but it ignored her. The vision made
Snowfall realize how similar she and Wasp were, with their shared
paranoia and belief that everyone is out to get them, making Snowfall
wonder if she would ever resort to what Wasp did.

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The Flames of Hope
Wasp was
mentioned when Luna thought about how unfair it was that she got to
decide everything that happened to the SilkWings. She was mentioned
during Luna and Swordtail's conversation when he told her how Wasp was
having him guard the SilkWings until there was enough of the breath of
evil to infect them. He told her how she sent him back to Cicada Hive.
As the stealth team continued on their flight to Pantala, they got
attacked by a group of mind-controlled HiveWings with Wasp inside them.
Wasp spoke through a mind-controlled SilkWing that also came with the
HiveWings. Wasp used the SilkWing's antennae to search for the invisible
members of the stealth team. By doing this, she managed to find and
knock out Pineapple and Moonwatcher. Wasp wondered if she could control
the knocked out members of the stealth team, before one of the
unconscious HiveWings, Earwig, woke up. Wasp tried to get useful
information out of her. Earwig, however, did not give her any useful
information on any sighting of the invisible stealth team. Wasp carried
the unconscious members of the stealth team back to the Hives, leaving
Earwig and the rest of the unconscious HiveWings behind.

Later, Wasp appeared in front of Qibli, Tsunami, and Pineapple.
Cottonmouth mind-controlled Malachite and requested to interrogate the
three prisoners. At first, Wasp did not agree, but after Cottonmouth
threatened her she allowed him to interrogate them. Pineapple sprayed
venom into her face, causing her to mind control the HiveWings in the
room at that time, as she was too distracted by the pain. Cottonmouth
switched between mind-controlling Wasp and then leaving her mind due to
the pain. Eventually, Cottonmouth was able to bear the pain and
mind-control her. Despite Cottonmouth's efforts, the captured dragons
from the stealth team still escaped. While Luna flew to Cicada Hive to
meet up with Swordtail, Sundew and some other members of the stealth
team went to make sure someone imprisoned Wasp. In the epilogue, Wasp
was mentioned to be imprisoned in the flamesilk cavern alongside her
sisters, while Queen Jewel replaced her as queen of the HiveWings.

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### Field Guides

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A Guide to the Dragon World
Wasp was
mentioned several times in Io's literature#Named books|Rules for
Happiness and Prosperity in the Hives. She was also mentioned by several
times in Monarch's final writing.

Wasp was depicted in a portrait at the beginning of the HiveWing chapter
of the guide. She was later mentioned in Cricket's guide to the HiveWing
school curriculum along with the Official Guide to the Hives. She was
briefly mentioned in Cricket's notes about potential HiveWing abilities.

In the LeafWing chapter, Wasp was mentioned several times in the letters
between Sequoia, Linden, and Belladonna.

## Relationships

### Cricket

Wasp sees Cricket as a traitorous HiveWing for stealing the Book of
Clearsight alongside Blue and Sundew, and for Wasp's inability to
mind-control her. After Cricket vandalized Jewel Hive, she threatened to
"fix" Cricket.

### Jewel

Wasp thought Jewel was stupid, annoying, and weak, and not a threat to
her power, despite the fact that she could not be controlled. Scarab
mentioned that Wasp has threatened to add Jewel to her hive-mind, and
said that Jewel acted like a "vapid banana slug" whenever Wasp was
around to make Wasp think she was harmless. After Jewel managed to
escape with the Jewel Hive SilkWings, Wasp noted that she knew should
have killed Jewel, along with Scarab, years ago.

### Malachite

Wasp controlled Malachite and paraded him past Scarab whenever she could, as punishment. In The Poison Jungle, she
threatened Cricket by saying that she would kill him.

### Scarab

Wasp and Scarab have an intense mutual dislike for each other. Wasp
threatened to kill Scarab in The Hive Queen.

## Quotes

What strange treason is this? […] Why can't I get inside your
mind, worm?
to Cricket, speaking through the Librarian The Lost Continent
211

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No, […] it's all true. I can control all of them. That's why
every dragon in the Hive is on their way to surround the temple right
now. I can't move the guards you paralyzed, but I can reach everyone
else. The moment you step outside this temple, they will kill you all.

to Sundew, about her mind control through the Librarian The Lost Continent
215

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Oh, I see your game, […] I can take a lot more pain than a
broken arm, though. I'm not afraid of anything you can do to this body.

to Sundew, through the Librarian about the bullet ants The Lost Continent
216

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Come out, you sniveling cowards! I know there are dragons
hiding in this library! Show yourselves, or I will burn all the books
until you die choking on the smoke.
to Cricket, Blue, Sundew,
and Swordtail through a HiveWing
The Hive Queen
160

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Nice try, Lady Scarab. […] I'm sure I'll be seeing you soon.

to Scarab through Katydid
The Hive Queen
160

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Then we'll have to throw you into it to slow the flames. You
are a tedious talonwringer. I'll do it myself.
through a
HiveWing to a guard that asked what to do if the fire spreads

The Hive Queen
161

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That was easier than I expected. You really were a fool to come
back into a Hive. And for what? A little bit of graffiti, a few
pamphlets that will be ash by evening? Poor naive little dragonet. As
though anyone would believe you over their queen. It must have been so
hard for you. Feeling so different, so alone. Watching everyone else
come together in my Hive mind, but always left out. But I have good news
for you, little dragon. You don't have to be different anymore. I can
fix you. I'm on my way right now. And when I get there … I can make you
just like everybody else. Aren't you lucky? See you soon, little problem
dragon.
through some guards to Cricket
The Hive Queen

215-216

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That little worm Cricket is here, isn't she? […] The one who
thinks she's so very clever, with her pamphlets and graffiti and rumors.
Guess what, Cricket? I figured it out. I know who your father is. And
he's mine, all mine, and I could kill him in a heartbeat if I wanted to.
Or I could let you meet him. Would you like that? Wouldn't you like to
come back to Wasp Hive so I … can …
through Inchworm to
Cricket The Poison Jungle
233

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Everyone was out to get me but I showed them, and now they are
all mine. This is what it means to be a true queen: complete control.
Nothing to fear. No one to stop her or argue with her or complain about
her. They fear HER, and that is how it should be.
thinking
about being a queen
The Dangerous Gift
178

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She's only a puppet who can control some of the other puppets
because she eats the plant and it combines with her venom in a useful
way. […] Anyway, she's only in charge of the HiveWings when he lets
her be. She thinks she's his equal, but she is basically one of his big
toes.
Freedom, about Wasp's relationship with Cottonmouth

The Flames of Hope
234

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There's someone else we can't see. […] One with fire. […] A
lost flamesilk, perhaps? Luuuuuuna. Little flamesilk, are you here?

through a SilkWing about an invisible member of the stealth
team
The Flames of Hope
42

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Earwig … ah, yes, of Tsetse Hive. I'm inside your brothers now.
I could have them kill each other so easily. Or perhaps this one could
rip off the other's ears. That would be entertaining. Perhaps if you
ever want to see them again, you could try addressing your queen with
more respect.
through a SilkWing to Earwig
The Flames
of Hope
47

## Trivia

  - Tui jokingly hinted in a Scholastic thread that her downstairs
    bathroom was once like the continent of Pantala, because "there was
    a wasp in there and so the room now belonged to the wasp forever."
  - Tui stated in a Home Base Q\&A that Wasp is her favorite villain.
  - It was rumored that Wasp ate as rarely as possible, and only ate
    predators.