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.

Flame.

Thrower.

Will not transfer over servers once you tame it.

They were bugged so you couldnt find the nests. Turns out they were invisible. The recent patch should have fixed it.

I had found about 30 beehive on The Island map. They were all empty. NO QUEEN BEE WTH.

Keep in mind that as soon as you destroy the nest the queen giant bee will start flying away instantly, so be close to the hive the moment it is destroyed. The queen flys at a slow speed, but fast enough for it to have severe consequences as if you lose sight of it for even a second you might lose it completely. After you destroy the hive you can use honey that is definitely dropped from the destroyed beehive to lure it as queen giant bees don't wander like a normal creature and instead fly in a straight line at like a 150 degree angle when they are initially spawned from a destroyed beehive, so use honey to fix its ai and actually make it start descending to the ground then wander like a normal creature.

If you don't have honey, you can also damage it by using something like a tranq arrow which won't kill it and that will also fix its ai. (obviously this will also aggro the regular giant bees)

If instead the queen bee is too far away to lure with honey, then read the first sentence of the tip again, specifically the second clause.

Can't find them on Lost Island, anyone else?

Not sure if this is just me or not but on console when she summons her soldiers while trying to tame it kicks you off the server

Bears are not immune to bees. RIP Yogi

The anti meshing keeps kill8ng my queen tame. I don't know how to stop this

I make about 40-50 fishing poles (they're cheap) and fly around with an argy or wyv stealing honey from hives. Honey never goes bad in fishing poles and I take it out as needed. Then just fly away from the worker bees. Gilly is best if you have it.

Beehives can also be found on cliff faces outside the redwood biome, if your not looking to be mauled by a thylacoleo.

There's a glitch in lost island when you break the hive the queen doesn't come out i could've been having bad lack but idk

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

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

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

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

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

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.