Honey Bee

* Current (S2)
* Old (S1)

The **Honey Bee**/**Honeybee**, or **Bee** as it is called by most players, is an AI Land animal, spawning in Beehives. Though it is equivalent to the Fox, Hedgehog, Peacock, Jellyfish, Fennec Fox and Arctic Fox, the Honey Bee cannot harm animals below tier 6, but it can bite its predators' tails. It was initially released on June 6, 2018.

## Technical

* It spawns out of a beehive when the beehive is touched by another animal (AI or player-controlled). Beehives spawn exclusively in the Land biome.
	+ Being a Land-spawning animal, the Bee will experience debuff when entering the Desert or Arctic.
* Attacks when an animal touches the hive or when attacked (although occasionally the bee will not retaliate; may be a bug).
	+ However, sometimes a single bee can leave the hive on its own, and flies around peacefully unless attacked by a player.
* The bee turns around and lunge backwards when going to sting someone. Their stinger extends while lunging, and will have an effect on all creatures in the game except for the frog and tier 17 animals.
* Unlike in real life, bees can sting animals multiple times. They gradually lose a little bit of health after having stung an animal. If an Animal is stung they cannot be stung until the effect wears off.
	+ Bees will hover over a Hiding Hole or Whirlpool and move sporadically if the animal that they are trying to sting goes into one.
* Once they are satisfied or if the animal moves far enough away, bees will return to their beehive after they finish attacking animals that disturb the beehive. They generally stop after a few minutes if the attacking animal is not dead/upgraded.
	+ If an animal eats the beehive or a Tornado sucks the beehive in and duplicates it, bees will not recognise it to no longer exist, and they will all go to one spot where the Beehive used to be.
* Bees are technically equivalent to tier 6 animals. However, they cannot eat any animals below this tier.
* Like the Dragon, bees can fly over everything, but their flight is slower when above hills and rocks.
* Upon death, anywhere from 0 to 2 Honeycombs are produced.
* Bees can eat most food sources in Mope.io, except for the clam, whole aloevera plant, conch, cactus, coconut and banana.

## Appearance

### Honey Bee (S2)

The Season 2 design differs greatly from the Season 1 design. It appears with short, thin legs that are segmented. It also has a furry, tan body near its head. It has angry-looking eyes, segmented antennae, and a yellow jaw. Its wings have veins and are transparent.

### Honey Bee (S1)

It is yellow with black stripes, and a stinger at the tail. It has two large eyes that protrude slightly from the head, and cream-colored wings. It has small jaws. When it goes to sting someone, they extend their stingers and charge backwards at the animal.

## Strategy

* Despite Honey Bees normally being unplayable, they can easily be manipulated. For example, if there is a beehive close to or over water, an animal with a high dive time (e.g. the Crocodile) can dive under the hive and can cause tons of bees to spawn and try to sting the diving animal.
	+ Such strategy can be used to kill a high tier animal such as an Elephant or Dragon (Black Dragons and King Dragons do not take damage though), so when the predator is at low health, the player can steal the kill.
	+ Bees can also be used to the player's advantage with a small animal like a Pig, or animals from tiers 1 to 5 that touch the hive. A massive amount of bees will spawn, so as an Elephant or Blue Whale, kill all of them in one hit. Try to push low tier animals into the hive so that the bees will be distracted by the other animal, then kill them.
* Likewise, if the player is at Bear tier animal almost ready to level up, they could find a hive, get enough food to level up, and use their 15 seconds before they level up to spawn a lot of bees. Subsequently, the player can level up to Falcon, fly away and have Honey Bees attack another player.
	+ However, stay cautious, as the Honey Bees can easily kill the player if they are not cautious. Because being stung also makes the player move very slowly, a predator could also fight their way through the bees and eat them. Also, if the player gets stung, other bees will attack them. As a result, the player would not be able to use their ability to defend the themselves.
* If the player is an Elephant or Blue Whale, they can easily use bees to level up quickly. Bite a beehive once, and attack the bees that come out with the their ability. The Bees will die in one hit. Continue with the said method and the player should reach to Apex tier in no time.
	+ When using this method, the player should try to find a water source so that they can dive while the bees come out, then when the timing is right, use their ability to kill bees.
* If the player is using the Giant Spider, the player should place webs over the Beehive, and attack the hive. When the bees come out of the hive, they will be poisoned. Then the player can eat the bees and easily gain XP and additional honeycomb.

## Gallery

### Assets

The current Honey Bee skin from the "*Season 2*" update (in-game from February 1, 2022–).The body of the "*Season 2*" Honey Bee with a stinger.The "*Season 2*" Honey Bee's stinging animation.The "*Season 2*" Honey Bee's body with no stinger.The right side wing of the "*Season 2*" Honey Bee.The right size wing for the "*Season 2*" Honey Bee when its wings are flapping.The left side wing of the "*Season 2*" Honey Bee skin.The left size wing for the "*Season 2*" Honey Bee when its wings are flapping.The old "*Season 1*" era Honey Bee skin (in-game from June 6, 2018 – January 31, 2022).The body of the "*Season 1*" Honey Bee, with a stinger.The "*Season 2*" Honey Bee's stinging animation.The "*Season 1*" Honey Bee's body with no stinger.The "*Season 1*" Honey Bee's right side wing.The left-side wing of the "*Season 1*" Honey Bee when it is flapping.The "*Season 1*" Honey Bee's left side wing.The right side wing of the "*Season 1*" Honey Bee when it is flapping.
### In-game

Honey Bees stinging an Ostrich and its babies.A lot of bees in a lake.A Black-Maned Lion being attacked by Honey Bees.
## History

 June 6, 2018 | * Added.

## Trivia

* The Honey Bee and Frog are the only AI animals with their own Special Abilities, per se. It is also the only AI creature other than the Goose that chases players.
* It cannot be redirected with custom redirects or resource override
* Despite being an insect, it is not targeted by the Venus Flytrap.
* When Team Mode was added in 2018, players could kill people on their own team via Bees. If an animal with a lot of air time swam under the hive after attacking it, then a lot of bees would fly in from that hive. Then, by moving next to a teammate, the teammate would be killed by unintentionally aggravating the Bees.

### Glitches

* In a reopening of Beta, Honey Bees attempting to sting flew extremely fast afterwards, disappearing from FoV in less than a second. This glitch was patched before the update was made to the main game.

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