Bee

The Bee is a very popular Arthropod guild. The most well-known bee builds have eusocial trait, which makes them gather to create large hives. They sometimes team with human players to farm XP. Many are also well-known for Stinger trait. Overall, they are amazing team builds that can quickly farm XP.

## Abilities and Skills

### Envenomate (Stinger)

The signature ability of the bee. If it feels threatened or feels that its hive is in danger, it will proceed to deliver a painful sting that usually drives the attacker away. Unfortunately, doing this against thick-skinned targets will deliver a game over for the bee. Sometimes, though, the debuff "Anaphylaxis" will appear, and cause a swift game over for the attacker. Sometimes this debuff appears after the first sting, but can sometimes appear after the second sting or above.
Note: Bumblebees can sting multiple times.

### Team intimidation

Gives a +1 intimidation bonus for every 4 bees in a group. Some players have however specced into negating this intimidation bonus (like Honey Badgers), but for most players, a large group of bees is certainly not something most they would want to go through.

### Warning colors

Gives a +20 intimidation bonus. Gives the bee a yellow-black striped color pallete which warns nearby players that it's probably better not to attack it.

### Eusocial

Allows the bee players to create hives with queens in them. Gives a large teamplay bonus and gives the bee a "Safe Area" in which they can safely rest and heal from wounds.

#### Arrhenotoky

A form of reproduction in which unfertilised eggs develop into males.

* More genetic material to be shared between sisters than traditional reproduction methods due to fathers always giving identical genetic information

* Allows the Queen bee to choose the gender of her spawn. Eggs that are not given any genetic material from a father will be born male.

### Flight

Gives the Bee the ability to fly using its wings. Very useful for getting to flowers with nectar inside them.

## Well-Known Bee Builds

### Honey Bee

The most infamous Bee build. It can spawn in any server except Antarctica. They have a one use stinger, create hives and have the normal yellow-black stripes. They make the most use of Eusocial trait, being able to build the largest bases. Basically the "default" Bee build.

### Bumblebee

A very well known Bee build. It can spawn  in any server except Antarctica. They are very similiar to Honey Bees, but with a few differences. For one, they have multiple use stingers, and will not die once they have stung. Secondly, they have noticeably larger fur than Honey Bees. They also have a higher health and defence rating due to having a larger size than the Honey Bee guild. Unfortunately, their bases are usually smaller than the formers, and XP farming is harder because they don't produce the health potions "Honey" that Honey Bees do.

### Killer Bee (Africanized Bee)

This Bee build is actually a hybrid build of the Honey build and African Lowland build. This Bee guild is much more aggressive than the other builds,  and is starting to become more widespread. Some players have been known to chase players for up to half a kilometer before giving up.

### Wallace's Giant Bee (Megachile Pluto)

This Bee build is rather different from the rest, and is not as played as the other Bee guilds. It is known for having no stripes, and for its gargantuan size. In fact, this Bee build is the largest known. The common strategy for this build is to go high on jungle trees, and then make or find holes on the top, in which they will nest.

### Carpenter Bee

This Bee build takes some strategies from the Megachile guild, and combines it with the standard Honey Bee build. They create nest inside Tree holes, which they usually create themselves. Aside from that, there is not much difference between this one and the Honey Bee guild.

### Mining Bee

This bee has a solitary playstyle and are essential pollinators. They dig tunnels for egg laying.

### Cuckoo Bee

Players of this bee build has opted into parasitic playstyle, griefing other bee builds, particularly solitary bee builds.

## Pros & Cons

### Pros

* Eusocial (Maximum cooperation)
* Has a stinger that can deliver a painful sting.
* Creates hives that provide a safe space for itself and its teammates..
* Has the highest intelligence of any insect build.

### Cons

* Against certain builds, using envenomate ability means game over.
* Has low HP, which means they can be insta-killed without even delivering the stinger.
* When lost, a bee is pretty much dead since it cannot withstand the harsh winter cold, even if it has survived all the other seasons.
* Pathfinding bugs present in the urban biome (e.g. flying against the glass).

## Tier placement

The bee is S tier due to its combination of abilities. If even one animal decided to attack its hive, the bee's eusocial ability will make almost all bees go into rage mode. Even though it dies once it stings an enemy player, most bees will likely just sway around for an intimidation bonus while the other ones sacrifice themselves. Its own Arrhenotoky exploit meant that the bees are reliant on the queens to pass down as much genetic information to daughters, which paves a new quest paths - that eusociality can fulfill.

## History

Bees have not been all that relevant in the previous updates, but in newer times, some Bee guilds have started to have a harder time than others. For example, the Honey Bee guild is starting to slowly decline due to Human pesticides and the very slow, but catastrophic "Climate Change" glitch that Humans have accidentally uncovered. However, others have been rather stagnant, and some have even started to thrive, like the Killer Bee guild. This has caused the Bee guild to have some relevancy in newer times.

## Trivia

* Human mains used to team up with Honeyguide players to attack honeybee bases for XP. Such tactics declined sharply once human players started helping build bases for honeybees in exchange for EXP. That made honeyguide team-ups largely obsolete.