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

Attacking hives with Rhynio doesn't drop you off mount

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

Need bug repellent to tame and rare flowers

NEVER CRYO ON ABERRATION. You will not be able to release it bc the game will recognize it as a foreign Dino.

Use a TEK Stryker with a phase cannon rig, one shot destroyers the hive, the queen appears. Tame normally.

I looked all over the redwood forest on the island and can't find one bee hive. Please help

At least for mobile players: DO NOT LEAVE THE GAME WHILE TAMING!! THE BEE WILL RESPAWN!!

On aberration, their nests can be found at the base of the big brown trees that you cannot harvest

You can use a tent after the bee hive breaks put the tent over top of the queen bee then wait for it to not be agressive then remove the tent and instantly tame it

Sometimes bee hives will spawn inside each other which can result in alot of bees attacking you. If you damage one hive use a spyglass to see if it's only one hive.

Just submitted a tip about them being really slow. After getting back to my base, I realized obtaining their hive puts theM IN YOUR INVENTORY.

Used 13 dimorph, an Argy, ghillie armoor, bug repellant snd some simple kibble. Cake walk. The dimorphs destroyed the hive in secondsand took care of all the drones with minimal damage. Thinking of getting a second hive.

Use simple kibble to tame I found it a lot easier than using rare flowers

Wear a ghillie suit and use bug spray on your mount and yourself and just crack the hive open with an rpg. Proceed to feed the Queen. Easy tame 👍

You can place hives on water platforms. You just can't place them on floor if you cover the platform but the actual platform itself with nothing covering it works

I really struggled taming these things so here is my tip for low performance pc players:

Preparation: 10 Bug repellants, ghilli armor, 5 dimorphodons (sinomacrops are great too), taming food

1. Go to the redwoods. Once you find a hive, whistle the pack to "attack this target".

2. While your Dinos do their thing, go stand out of the drone's reach. They die after getting too far away from the nest. Observe the hive's HP with spyglass. Once it's just about to break whistle your Dinos to return and go passive.

3. Destroy the hive with a ranged weapon. The queen will fall out.

4. Quickly whistle "Stop" (the queen is afraid of tames), put on bug repellant, and follow her.

5. This is the tricky part. While she bumbles around, you have to quickly approach and feed her without aggroing the drones. I did that by walking by her quickly and spamming E. Don't let her out of your sight because she will dissappear once she's more than 40m away!! (it's not directly despawn but she will only be visible as long as you're in a close proximity) (yea this may be a low performance pc thing)

This is a VERY annoying tame but don't let that stop you! Eventually, you'll make it.

IF YOU CANT FIND A HIVE IN THE REDWOODS! My game had zero nest spawns I had to use admin commands to input "admincheat destroywilddinos" will reset wild spawns so be aware if you built somewhere dangerous. Only way I was able to get quetz and bees to spawn. (dedicated PS4 server)

You can use bug repellent to open your hives with out taking damage

Ark: asc

On offcial, do not bother with any tactic other than use rockets to destroy the nest and then run out of render. After a couple secs use bug repellent and run to the tree directly under the nest and see if you can render the queen.

You may need a dino to get close enough. Queens can glitch into trees etc, if they do they are lost. When tamed they turn into drones and expire.

Once you spot the queen with repellent active either charge her spamming your action button with nothing equipped to hands and wild flowers in past hot bar spot.

OR crawle under her while your repellent is active and try to feed her. Personally I've hand sucess more with the gentler approach if lag allows. If lag is bad just run straight at her and don't stop untill ur out of render then turn and Come back doing strafing runs untill you get her.

Queens fly random directions includeing up and away. (If they fly up, give it a few secs at the edge of render and she will drift back down provided you dont antagonize her.) On 1x rates takes 2-3 flowers due to an update. It used to be just 1. For 1 flower insta tame now wait for 3x rates. During love evolved this year and 2x rates it took 2 flowers per bee.