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Are they really flies that bite or bees that sting? Or some insidious Chaos bugs? Let's see some graphics! --Larris 19:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Whatever they are (some have just gone ahead and given them the name of "carrion diver", which sounds more like a biting fly, too) just look at them mandibles! Bug clouds, and bugbeast "assassin" beastess bug shot. At least they aren't venomous, but somehow shock the system.
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2091/bugassed3.gif
And of course, these are the same ones used hovering over the first zombie in Cragscleft, flying about the patrolling zombie on the top mine level, spinning like a trap in Con's mansion, swirling in the first area upon entering the cell block of Sholesgate, swirling over the dead bodies in the pit in Eavesdropping, and swirling about the nest in an apebeast treehouse in the Summer section of T2's Maw. I'm inclined to believe they are a family of insects, with different patterns of behaviour amongst the variations, though they nearly all share the zapping bite, with I think one instance where they don't collide or interact with the player IIRC.
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/990/bugswarmnestqm4.jpg
A really crappy video for the occasion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSg1oxDoNHo&fmt=18
Ehcmier 22:40, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Ehcmier
Great picture of the nest! I think all of this could easily fit into the article. Heh, those close-ups look genuinely menacing. Maybe an animated GIF would look good? --Larris 07:01, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Animated GIF, original size
http://s51.radikal.ru/i133/0902/58/4b7fbaee1a92.gif --DJ Riff 10:43, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
As you can see, and confirmed by staring at a swarm in-game, the images aren't meant to be frames of animation, but different angles to give the swarm a randomness. One bug is a single image, like a sprite, that travels on an arc, but does not itself rotate on an axis. I've been making screenshots all day and night, not just of swarms, but I did some experimental Cetus Amicus and Drilling Machine stuff, too. Here's a zip of all the bug variations, the bug shot attacks are difficult to capture well. I'm off to sleep... Ehcmier 12:42, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Ehcmier
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