Do Apiaries "Generate" Bees?

[D92C]

Or should i just leave the hive and farm for some bees?

[plasticpenguin]

Yes, but slowly. If you put the queen and just leave it, eventually it will fill with 20 bees.

[D92C]

ok, do you know if the beehive does it faster? or do you think it's the same?

[plasticpenguin]

I have no idea honestly so i would just be guessing.

When i have collected beehives, using a net first to get some bees, i usually collect around 10 before it becomes too time consuming to chase and find others so i'm not sure if they are generated with a full compliment of bees or they have to generate them over time.

I will say that i did do some island hopping only searching for bees, collecting hives within a minute, if not less of arriving and they did seem to have a decent amount of bees already.

I just ran through a bunch of forrest biomes simply to collect hives and bees. When i got back i had around 50 bees and maybe 8-9 queens. I then just spread the bees i had around 4-5 apiary . Each apiary will fill up to 20. Honestly though, once all of them had filled, i found it to be annoying with 120+ little bees buzzing around the settlement, getting trapped in houses and animal pens etc.

Edit: If you time it right though, all the bees will head back into the hive/apiary as the time ticks over to night, around the same time as settlers hit the sack, so you can just stand in front of the hive/apiary and wildly swing the net as they all try to stream in and collect the majority.

[TsuKuSs]

Best thing to do is to put them in a pen, some may escape sometimes when an npc tries to collect honey, but that's better than 120 bees roaming around x)

[D92C]

hehe, think they spawn at the same rate in an apiary, tho i've noticed that they seem to do something to the crops, i assume they give a growth boost to the crops/flowers

[plasticpenguin]

Originally posted by TsuKuSs:

Best thing to do is to put them in a pen, some may escape sometimes when an npc tries to collect honey, but that's better than 120 bees roaming around x)

Good god I'm stupid! I just glgot rid of them and decided sugar beats were the way to go.