Vespoid

Vespoids are annoying, fragile, wasp-like insects found in all Monster Hunter games. Having a low resilience to most forms of damage, Vespoids will generally disintegrate when struck with a final blow from a weapon. Thus, a common practice used throughout hunters to harvest the bounty of these insectoids is to use a poison smoke bomb for more widespread desalination or to inflict poison onto a single foe and allow them to drop slowly. Even if poison isn't aplied the vespoid can still drop to the ground though the chances are slim.

Usually found meekly permeating nearly every area of lower-ranked missions, Vespoids grow more formidable in G-ranked missions, withstanding more damage from direct attacks and surviving longer against poisons. They are also known to infinitely spawn near ledges of certain areas, giving no unfair advantage to height-exploiting Gunners.

Occasionally exceptionally large Vespoids, bigger in size than the hunter, will be confronted. Some observers refer to these specimens as queens. These monsters are quite a bit stronger than their smaller counterparts, able to take more damage and cause more on the receiving end.

Vespoids are commonly hunted for useful Monster Fluid/Broth and Vespoid abdomen, which allow creation of the only bowguns capable of firing Dragon S ammunition for gunners. Parts of these monsters are also used to craft specific sets of armor and the Insector series of Dual Swords.

=See Also=
 * Hornetaur
 * Minions