NEVER break the hive with ranged attacks unless it is from a rocket launcher or tek rifle. If you choose to shoot it, you will waste alot of your ammo because beehives have a 65% damage reduction against bullets, and you should not try to shoot the drones that will continuously spawn from it infinitely, because they will not repair the hive, so best not to shoot it down and use a direbear because i'm gonna assume the beehive is close enough to you to give you the option to either melee it or shoot it like the other guy, it protects you from being dismounted from giant bees, and it has a damage multiplier that can make it do way more damage against beehives since it counts as a thatch structure. Oh, and the queen has a bug after it spawns from its destroyed beehive that will make it fly in a straight line infinitely until it is damaged or aggroed and most of the time this line is pointed away from the ground and towards the sky, so best to be close to the beehive the moment you destroy it so you can fix the queens ai by luring it with honey, instead of being far away enough that the drones won't chase you, because then when you destroy the hive and try to run up to the queen bee to lure it the queen will have flown far enough away that there is nothing you can do about it.