You can also tame the wandering ones but you still have to wear guile

Certain hives can be found on cliffs around the island and these may well be easier to interact with when compared to the redwood hives.

The honey is a must for fishing. It can be used for salmon, just like leech blood. I used it as bait for an hour and noticed that fish bite more frequently. In a pool with coel and salmon, I noticed that the salmon bit more frequently than the coels while using honey as bait.

Don’t go to red woods, go to green ob, they spawn right at the entrance in the little corridor. Usually not in a hive either, just flying or floating. still use ghillie and repellent if you have it. But what’s nice is that they don’t fly away due to the path being so narrow, they may fly directly towards you or near you, just line yourself up with their path and you should be able to feed the rare flower. Even if they start spawning drones try and feed it, I have consistently have found them there. It truly beats the headache of finding one in the red woods especially since you don’t always get one to spawn after breaking. This tactic really makes this tricky tame a 5 minute task!

Someone here said it cant be transfered. It can when inside of a cryo.

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.

You can transfer to other servers if you cryopod it BEFORE you "obtain" it as a Bee Hive, you can cryopod it and transfer it, just obtain the hive once you throw out the Queen Bee.

C4 the hive. Then you only need to deal with one swarm of easily killable drones, and then taming the queen is simple. Just watch out for the drones she spawns.

To make honey last practically forever, make a fishing rod and equip honey, that is about to spoil, to the fishing rod, then un-equip it. It should refresh the spoil timer. Does not work with leech blood. Tested on PS4.

-Hartz

The giant worker bees on crystal isles are neutral, even if you walk into the hive. But if you hit anything... BEWARE!

Don't waste any anno. Simple whistle attack target for your argi and let the bird do the Job. Stay away until the hive is broken the follow the queen with flowers, ghillie and bug repl.

Everyone writing tips saying they got fooled by empty beehives when there is one easy way to tell if its empty or not:

If it buzzes or not.

If you are not close enough to the beehive to tell if it buzzes or not, then you have no reason to be raiding that beehive as you are probably unprepared:

1. Obviously you aren't able to damage the hive with melee attacks since you are on the ground, you should use a different tame or find a new beehive

2. Beehives have a 65% damage reduction against firearms, so if you are aware that you are about to use a lot of resources then go ahead

3.If the beehive you want to raid is too far away for you to tell if it buzzes or not, then at that range you can't even lure queens with honey. The reason why I mention this is because as soon as giant queen bees spawn upon the destruction of their hive they have a bug that makes them fly in a straight line infinitely until they are aggroed/startled/lured with honey, so unless you want to see a queen giant bee slowly fly away into the sky never to be seen again, then do your thing.

Honey the bee creates expires quickly. (even in a fridge.)

You can actually (attach) the honey to a fishing rod and remove at anytime. This will prevent the honey from ever expiring! Good way to store it as fishing rods are so cheap to make!

Something I see way too often even with veterans is that if a hive doesn’t spawn mini bees THERE IS NO QUEEN don’t waste time run near hives and if physical bees pop out there is a queen it will also make a loud ass sound btw. Remeber ghille will work with no repellant but repellant makes life easier

the level of the smaller bees is the same level as the queen bee. so you can just attack it then check the level of the small bees so you know what level the queen bee is and you don’t have to break the hive/nest thing

keep some rare flowers in the hive after they are tamed, they'll consume it very slowly, but it heals the hive.

If you have a megachaleon they’ll produce rare flowers and the bees eat rare flowers and the bees will produce honey

Tribe of the jerboa

Why is it impossible to find a giant bee inside the hive?

My advice for farming up some honey, or taming one of these guys is as follows:

1. Tame a Bronto and equip it with platform saddle

2. Tame a dire bear

3. Go to the redwoods and look for hives

4. Position Bronto to where you can hit the hive with your bear

5. Hit the hive and get the 15 honey with the bear

6. Destroy the hive and get a queen bee to come out

7. Tame with kibble whilst wearing ghillie and bug repelant

8. Turn your bee into a hive and put rare flowers in it to passively gain honey

After placing the hive down you demolish it and get your queen bee back