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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for giant bee? Tips and strategies for giant bee in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
These hives can also be found on cliffs other than the redwood trees. This can be helpful if you don't want to get mauled by a carno, or a pair of dire bears.
Use flame arrows and stand between tribemate's rex's legs. They kill the bees and you can focus on killing the hive
Took forever to find a nest and even longer to get the queen out.my recommendation being friends.
Taming these can be annoying due to them flying away once or twice
(timeconsuming) build 8-10 fence foundation polygon around the base of the tree, apply thatch walls 2 obove the height of the hive, the bee will then slowly decend leaving it stuck in a small area, wear ghillie and bugspray, once you feed the queen she will whistle the drones on you, you then have to run away until they die off,
The Queen will produce 1 drone every 2 seconds with a max of 10ish that she can have at any time. Once max limit is reached a drone will die and another to take its place
I would have to say get a megalaina for this they can climb if it's up on a tree they can climb a tree I did it they are good as well for destroying the hive remember once hive is destroyed cryo your megalaina but use bug repellent then make sure you have rare flower and the honey remember dont let the queen spot you if it does you cant tame it
Use a pronto to break the hive with around 3-4 hits and then tame the queen, just used it to destroy and accidentally kill the hive and queen
If the bees were as large as the current queen...
How large is the queen...?
Easy rare flowers for honey and/or taming: beaches north of the eastern swamp where the forest, beach, and swamp biomes meet; pick your favorite harvester and you will get hundreds of flowers in minutes. The kapros/sucros rarely wander from the swamp and the swamp bushes are available all the way up to the forest. Most common enemies are just annoying, like dilos or jerk pelicans, with the occasional raptor or carno if you go too far up the beach.
I use a Wyvern and use the ability on the tek helmet and when the worker bees aggro me I walk backwards and when I’m safe distance I eat the worker bees and not the queen and I tame 25 in a hour or two.
It is a passive tame, I tried to knock it out and used about 10 tranq arrows before I gave up. You can sometimes find these wandering around on single player without breaking a nest for some reason, whether or not the wandering bees are tamable I have no clue but I'm betting one of you guys will find out.
Have ghili bug spray have food in inv use a wyvern to brake the hive and follow the bee unmount on top of it spam e run and mount up and repeat till tame that's how to counter the little bees attacking you
Wild bee’s probably hard to defeat without water, a Ghillie suit, and even bug reppelent and a dire bear! So I would recommend find and tame a dire bear and have all the stuff that I wrote, or you will most likely die, oh also need a crossbow and 5 flamethrower 88 ammo, and lotttttttt’s of rare flowers and add raw prime meat in last item slot break the hive for queen to come out!
I,ve always used a wyv. 3 chomps nest breaks, follow bee to ground staying in render distance. full ghillie, bug repellent, 1 simple kib per. Can come home with 5-10 bees a run. Beware on the center some bee nests are bugged and when you demo them they don't turn back into a bee. Not sure if that's all maps or not.
Ok. I have looked till I'm blue in the face and there aren't any beehives in the trees on crystal isles. The worker bees in the cave don't appear to be tamable either.
Wear a full ghille suit and use bug repellent be careful when using dinos to destroy the hive as you may accidentally kill the queen
If your going to use a quetz, bring a turtle on it to tank drones while you feed mother bee 100% easy as cake
If you stay crouched the drones won't hit you as much, and prone they hardly hit you at all, so if you are overwhelmed by the drones just go prone. I tamed a bee with drones hovering over me most of the time. This is with full ghillie and repellent by the way.
Tried taming with bear, bear wasn't immune and got attacked by the bees the Queen spawns. Rip Bear.