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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 |
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| 2 | Worship | 100 Dirt | Allows finding a clutch of 1 Insect |
| 5 | Worship | 200 Tadpoles | Allows finding a clutch of 2 Insect (occasionally)? |
| 8 | Worship | ??? | ??? |
Where to find them
Insects are randomly found during the following types of actions:
- Foraging Herbs, whether successful of misidentified
- Gathering Clay
- Gathering Dirt
- Gathering Slate
- Gathering Thorns
- Gathering Wood
- Harvesting Flax
- Digging
- Picking Papyrus
- Diving for pearls
- Harvesting Onions
- Collecting Water, but maximum one insect per location filled from
- Slaughtering Livestock
Insect Types
| Insect | Herbs | Clay | Dirt | Slate | Thorns | Wood | Flax | Digging | Papyrus | Diving | Onions | Water | Slaughtering | Leeks | ||
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| Desert Millipede | |
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| Golden Asp | |
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| Honey Fly | |
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| Needleworm | |
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| Orchid Hopper | |
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| Oyster Mite | |
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| Red Cricket | |
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| Ringed Wasp | |
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| Rose Swallowtail | |
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| Sand Mite | |
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| Slime Moth | |
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| Spittlebug | |
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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
