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The '''Sand Wasp''' is an insectiod a giant insect [[animal]] native to the deserts of the [[Borderlands]]. Sand Wasps buzz around, capable attacking with a melee sting, but they can also launch a ranged attack, firing out a string of hatching poisonous baby tiny glowing green wasps very rapidly, spitting them against potential prey.

This Sand Wasp is not a very terrifying creature by itselffairly weak monster when dealt with one-on-one. They become dangerous in groups, or especially on a crowded screen, and dies from since they can fire out repeated sprays of miniature wasps. These glowing green bullets cruise straight across the screen at a hit or twoslow speed, but are often coming together with other sorts of monster, becoming several wasps firing them at once they can become quite numerous and more than a bit of a nusiance with their wasp-baby attacks, that also are poisonousnuisance.

===Spells This is more an ability than a spell, since any Sand Wasp can do it numerous times, potentially launching dozens of tiny wasps, in bursts of four at a time. The mini-wasps aren't very damaging, but they can be quite numerous and Abilities===very annoying and distracting to players who are locked up in combat with other enemies. * Spit Baby WaspSand Wasps are very common through most of the surface levels in Act Two, but they seldom spawn in large groups, and no boss packs were seen in the [[BlizzCon 2009]] build. They did occur as Champions and solitary bosses, which were considerably more difficult than individual normal wasps.

An ability rather than a spellThe AI of the wasps is similar to that of {{iw|Blood_Hawk Blood Hawks}} found in Diablo II. The Wasps tend to hover around and move in semi-random fashion, and actually the standard attack of the Sand Waspcould be fairly easily ignored, if not for their annoying projectile attacks.

The sand wasps presumably dwell in the desert regions of [[Sanctuary]], where they await their prey. Their main attack seems to be the act of spitting shooting baby wasps at the target. Whether or not they are aggressive towards humans is because of [[demon]]ic corruption, or just hunger is unknown.

We have seen giant insects before, primarily in [[Diablo II]], Act III. Whether this desert wasp has anything to do with the jungle one remains to be seen.

The Sand Wasp was first seen at the [[GamesCom 2009 demo]] and shortly after that at [[BlizzCon 2009]]. The inspiration for this enemy was old time arcade games, where you need players are forced to dodge bullets from opposing ships.