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Arthropodology
Usage
Once learned, allows the chance of finding insects of varying types whilst performing a number of different simple actions. These insects lead to fishing lures with the relevant skills.
Tuition
| Level | School | Requires | Allows |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Worship | 100 Dirt | Allows finding a clutch of 1 Insect |
| 5 | Worship | 200 Tadpoles | Allows finding a clutch of 1 or 2 Insects |
| 8 | Worship | 300 Beeswax | Allows finding a clutch of 1 to 3 Insects |
| 11 | Worship | 400 Cactus Sap | Allows finding a clutch of 1 to 4 Insects |
| 14 | Worship | 500 Raw Silk | Allows finding a clutch of 1 to 5 Insects |
| 17 | Worship | 600 Dung | Allows finding a clutch of 1 to 6 Insects |
| 20 | Worship |  tuition unconfirmed
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Allows finding a clutch of 1 to 7 Insects |
Where to find them
Insects are randomly found during the following types of actions:
- Foraging Herbs, whether successful or misidentified
- Gathering Clay, Dirt, Slate, Thorns, Wood, Limestone
- Harvesting Flax
- Digging a hole
- Picking Papyrus
- Diving for pearls
- Harvesting Onions, Leeks, Carrots
- Collecting Water, Sand and Mud, but maximum one insect per location obtained from
- Slaughtering Livestock
- Dive for Oyster Meat
Insect Types
| Insect | Herbs | Clay | Dirt | Slate | Thorns | Wood | Flax | Digging | Papyrus | Diving | Onions | Water Mud Sand | Slaughtering | Leeks | Limestone | Carrots | Cabbage | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ash Centipede |  Yes |
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| Bat Mite | Yes |
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| Blister Beetle | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Bloodworm | Yes |
Yes |
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| Bristleworm | Yes |
Yes |
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| Clay Slug | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Camel Weevel (sic) | Yes |
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| Corckscrew Asp | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Corn Maggot | Yes |
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| Desert Millipede | Yes |
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| Dew Fly | Yes |
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| Feather Midge | Yes |
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| Footworm | Yes |
Yes |
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| Fruit Maggot | Yes |
Yes |
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| Glass Worm | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Golden Asp | Yes |
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| Grass Slug | Yes |
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| Hairy Slug | Yes |
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| Honey Fly | Yes |
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| Horned Hookworm | Yes |
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| Leafhopper | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Leaf Snapper | Yes |
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| Mud Asp | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Needleworm | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Nightwing | Yes |
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| Nippleworm | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Orchid Hopper | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Oyster Mite | Yes |
Yes |
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| Pickel Slug | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Queen Maggot | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Red Cricket | Yes |
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| Ringed Wasp | Yes |
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| Rose Mite | Yes |
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| Rose Swallowtail | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Ruby Hornborrer | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Salt Mite | Yes |
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| Sand Mite | Yes |
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| Skinlicker | Yes |
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| Slime Moth | Yes |
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| Snowberry Butterfly | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Spittlebug | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Stone Fly | Yes |
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| Toad Sawfly | Yes |
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| Woodmoth | Yes |
Yes |
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| Woolly Aphid | Yes |
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| White Mealybug | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| White Sawfly | Yes |
Insect Rarity
As a test 1000 flax beds were planted and harvested in batches of 25. After 1000 harvests there were:
Fruit Maggot: 6
Leafhopper: 5
Orchid Hopper: 18
Snowberry Butterfly: 2
Spittlebug: 47
Clearly spittlebugs are the most common for the time/location/activity and player.
Harvesting 195 Papyrus plants in varied terrain from 2:15am to 3:30am Akhet I-7 around the Nile/Chariot area:
Footworm: 5
Glass Worm: 11
Needleworm: 1
Nippleworm: 7
