Harpie Bug Swarm

"Bug swarm" redirects here. For the discontinued random event, see Swarm.

Harpie Bug Swarm

Release date	30 January 2006 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	46
Life points	250
Experience for killing	100 (33 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	Level 33
Slayer XP	25
Assigned by	Chaeldar, Vannaka
Aggressive?	Yes
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Melee
Attack speed	AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
Max hit	60
Weakness	bug lantern, crushbug lantern, crushbug lantern, crushbug lantern, crushbug lantern, crushbug lantern, crushbug lantern, crushbug lantern, crushbug lantern, crushbug lantern, crushbug lantern,bug lantern, crushBug lantern, Crush
Always drops	Nothing
Examine text	A swarm of bugs.

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Harpie Bug Swarms are insectoid Slayer monsters that require level 33 Slayer to kill as well as level 33 firemaking to light the Harpie bug lantern. A Lit bug lantern is required to do damage on them.

Players often kill Harpie Bug Swarms as many consider them a good source of Clue scrolls (medium), have relatively low defence, and are also a good source for fire runes and green charms. They are aggressive to players under level 93. If you use the fairy ring you may want to bring some food because there is a level 83 monster that is aggressive along the way. If you are under level 107 combat you will also be attacked by jogres. You will need some agility to cross the log. If you fail you will be damaged.

Strengths and weaknesses

Harpie Bug Swarms use rapid melee attacks and do quite a bit of damage for their combat level. If a lit bug lantern is not equipped any attacks on them will not hit, although if using a poisoned weapon, the poison will affect them and can kill them if given enough time. A fast-hitting weapon, like a scimitar, helps to get rid of them quickly before they can do too much damage.

Alternatively, players can mage or range Harpie Bug Swarms from the eastern side of the stream at the eastern end of their habitat, to avoid taking any damage from them, although this does mean expenditure in terms of runes or ammo for ranged weapons. Note: Ava's device, a reward from Animal Magnetism quest, does not work across the stream to retrieve bolts.

Another place to mage or range them is north of the brown ridge. They will not come too far in between the sea and ridge.

Although not in a multi-combat area, a Cannon can be used to take down the swarms in one hit fairly often.

Another viable strategy, for those that have finished the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest, is to use Protect from Melee prayer, and refilling prayer points at the Tribal statue in the village, a short run away. In this case, prayer boosting armour is recommended to increase fighting time

File:Harpie bug swarm location.png

The location of Harpie bug swarms.

Habitat

They're found east of the Jogre Dungeon. Since Harpie Bug Swarms are located close to the Karamja general store, it is possible to buy food there as well as sell drops. However, if one wishes to use a bank, there is one in the TzHaar City, found beneath Karamja Volcano, and the route is made shorter with the mithril grapple shortcut (53 agility, 42 ranged and 21 strength required) on a peninsula just east of the cliff. If you don't wish to or cannot use that shortcut, you may also bank in Shilo Village after you complete the Shilo Village quest. Also, Rionasta in Tai Bwo Wannai Village can send items to the bank for 10 trading sticks per item, although he cannot take items out of the bank. The bank in Zanaris is also close, if you can use fairy rings (northeast of CKR) , as the bank is just north-west of the main fairy ring in Zanaris.

Players can still be assigned Harpie bug swarms for slayer, even if they do not have the 33 firemaking level required to light an Unlit bug lantern. Players cannot use assistance from other players to light an Unlit bug lantern, therefore 33 firemaking is a necessary requirement to enable players to kill Harpie Bug Swarms.

Drops

Armour/Weapons

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Steel full helm	1	2 Common	219
	Steel hatchet	1	2 Common	49
	Staff of fire	1	2 Common	1,195
	Mithril chainbody	1	3 Uncommon	1,039
	Adamant helm	1	3 Uncommon	1,039
	Black 2h sword	1	3 Uncommon	1,044
	Steel boots	1	3 Uncommon	502
	Rune helm	1	4 Rare	11,283

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Chaos rune	15–30	2 Common	1,290–2,580
	Fire rune	20,30,60,90	2 Common	280–1,260
	Death rune	3	3 Uncommon	555

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	30, 40, 160, 200, 230, 275, 430, 490, 720, 1000	2 Common	Not sold
	Gold ore	1	2 Common	228
	Coal	1	3 Uncommon	263
	Jug of wine	1	3 Uncommon	80
	Clue scroll (medium)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved Ancient Effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table drops

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price Coins 250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000 2 Common Not sold Uncut sapphire 1 2 Common 810 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,295 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 2,613 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 9,402 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,758 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 9,520 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 13,572 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 10,393 Dragon dagger 1 2 Common 17,356 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,285 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 800 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,130 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 40,021 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 867,800 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 34,977 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,553 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 60,107 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 31,600 Rune arrow 150–200, 500 4 Rare 28,500–95,000 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,315,350 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,200 Air orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,216,000 Fire orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,406,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 457,724 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,485 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 20,650–28,910 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 48,450–67,830 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 137 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 165 Pure essence 500–15000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 53,500–1,605,000 Template:ExchangeItemNat Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare – Soul rune 20 4 Rare 6,360 Death rune 50, 121 4 Rare 9,250–22,385 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 9,750 Raw swordfish 125 – 250, 1000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,875–303,000 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 129,750–259,500 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 52,650–175,500 Coal 150–7500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 39,450–1,972,500 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 248,250–1,324,000 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 9,200 Adamant bar 1000–7000 (noted) 4 Rare 2,175,000–15,225,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,067,100 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,029–1,954,350 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 115,665 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 69,100–691,000 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 168,210–672,840 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 277,960–2,779,600 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 854,750 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 5,583 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 84,903–4,245,150 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 294,483–1,766,898 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,219,220 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 26,078 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 274,040–8,495,240 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 2,052 Yew logs 100–20000 (noted) 4 Rare 49,400–9,880,000

Trivia

• If you look closely, whenever you hit the swarm for damage, a splash of white liquid will appear at the bottom of the swarm. This may be blood or dead bugs.
• These bugs slightly resemble a Bloated Leech, though shrunken and a different colour.
• You can kill the bugs without a lit bug lantern by using poisoned weapons, but it will not count as a kill for slayer or give any drops.
• The fact that stabbing/slashing attacks do not work well aganist them is probably because while lunging your sword at them, it is unlikely to hit a large number of bugs in that hit. This means that the bugs are probably small, and the bluntness of a crush attack can hit many bugs at once.
• They will occasionally retreat if their health is low.
• During the October 25th, 2011 triple slayer experience event, Harpie Bug Swarms didn't give triple slayer experience like all the other tasks did.