Bee Species

This list shows all Bee Species added by Forestry, Extra Bees and Magic Bees. There are a total of 193 (202 including "extinct") different Bee species. For detailed information, visit the corresponding Bee pages.

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Mundane Bees [Expand/Collapse All]

Mundane bees refers to all bees which can be found naturally in Bee Hives. "Requires" indicates the nearby item the species needs initially to produce, if it varies from normal flowers. Species added to Forestry branches are marked (ExB).

Mundane Bees [Expand/Collapse]

Species Origin Special Notes Produce Forest Forest Hive Requires Normal Flowers Meadows Meadows Hive Requires Normal Flowers Modest Desert Hive Requires Cacti Tropical Jungle Hive Requires Fern or Vine Wintry Snow Hive Requires Normal Flowers Marshy Swamp Hive Requires Mushroom Water Water Hive Requires Lily Pad Rocky Rock Hive Requires Stone Embittered Nether Hive Requires Nether Wart Marbled Marble Hive Requires Normal Flowers Valiant Any Hive Any bee from a wild hive has a 5% chance of being Valiant instead. Ender End Hive Requires Dragon Egg

Forestry Bees[Expand/Collapse All]

Common Branch [Expand/Collapse]
Species Origin Special Notes Produce Forest Forest Hive Meadows Meadows Hive Common Hive Bee + Different Hive Bee (15%) Cultivated Common + Hive Bee (12%)

Noble Branch [Expand/Collapse]
Species Origin Special Notes Produce Noble Common + Cultivated (10%) Majestic Noble + Cultivated (8%) Maximum fertility (4x Drones) Imperial Noble + Majestic (8%) Beatific effect (regeneration)

Industrious Branch [Expand/Collapse]
Species Origin Special Notes Produce Diligent Common + Cultivated (10%) Unweary Diligent + Cultivated (8%) Industrious Diligent + Unweary (8%) Only bee to produce Pollen.

Heroic Branch [Expand/Collapse]
Species Origin Special Notes Produce Steadfast Only found in dungeon chests. Nocturnal Valiant 5% Chance from Beehives; also in dungeon chests Heroic Steadfast + Valiant (6%) Can only be created in a forest biome. Heroic effect (fights mobs)

Infernal Branch [Expand/Collapse]

Species Origin Special Notes Produce Sinister Modest + Cultivated (60%) Tropical + Cultivated (60%) Aggressive (causes about one damage per second if you stand near) This species can only be created in the Nether. Fiendish Sinister + Cultivated (40%) Sinister + Modest (40%) Sinister + Tropical (40%) Aggressive (causes about one damage per second if you stand near) This species can only be created in the Nether. Demonic Sinister + Fiendish (25%) Aggressive (causes about one damage per second if you stand near) This species can only be created in the Nether.

Austere Branch [Expand/Collapse]
Species Origin Special Notes Produce Modest Desert Hive Nocturnal Frugal Modest + Sinister (16%) Modest + Fiendish (10%) This species can only be created in a hot/arid or hellish/arid biome Austere Modest + Frugal (8%) Creeper effect (will cause explosions if you stand near) This species can only be created in a hot/arid or hellish/arid biome

End Branch [Expand/Collapse]
Species Origin Special Notes Produce Ender Found in End Hives Dragon egg as flower. 'Ends' effect (deals damage when standing near the apiary).

Tropical Branch [Expand/Collapse]
Species Origin Special Notes Produce Tropical Jungle Hive "Jungle Flowers" are vines or ferns Negative Effect. (Poison) Exotic Austere + Tropical (12%) Produces Silky Combs the fastest. Edenic Exotic + Tropical (8%) "Explorer" effect gives experience (can stack).

Frozen Branch [Expand/Collapse]
Species Origin Special Notes Produce Wintry Snow Hive Maximum fertility (4 drones). Freezing Effect. Icy Industrious + Wintry (12%) Glacial Icy + Wintry (8%) Frigid (ExB) Wintry + Diligent (10%) Added by Extra Bees Absolute (ExB) Ocean + Frigid (8%) Added by Extra Bees

Festive Branch [Expand/Collapse]

Species Origin Special Notes Produce Leporine Meadows + Forest This species can only be created around Easter. (approx. April 6-15) (10%) Merry Wintry + Forest This species can only be created around Christmas. (approx. December 21-27) (10%) Tipsy Wintry + Meadows This species can only be created around New Year's Eve. (approx. Dec 27 - Jan 2) (10%) Celebratory (ExB) Austere + Excited (5%) Added by Extra Bees.

Agrarian Branch [Expand/Collapse]
Species Origin Special Notes Produce Rural Meadows + Diligent (12%) This species can only be created in a Plains biome. Farmed (ExB) Cultivated + Rural (10%) Added by Extra Bees

Boggy Branch [Expand/Collapse]
Species Origin Special Notes Produce Marshy Swamp Hive Swamp (ExB) Common + Marshy (10%) Added by Extra Bees Boggy (ExB) Swamp + Marshy (8%) Added by Extra Bees Fungal (ExB) Boggy + Swamp (8%) Added by Extra Bees

Extra Bees (Extra Bees mod)

You can view the Bees added by the Extra Bees mod on the Extra Bee Species page.

Magic Bees

You can view the Bees added by the Magic Bees mod on the Magic Bee Species page.

Other [Expand/Collapse All]

The following 6 bee species were available in previous or special versions of Forestry. They can no longer be bred, but can be obtained with usage of the /givedrone and /giveprincess commands, providing that cheats are enabled on the world/server that the player is playing on.

"Extinct- From Forestry" [Expand/Collapse]

Species Origin Special Notes Produce Vindictive Unobtainable. Not listed in-game. Vengeful Unobtainable. Not listed in-game. Avenging Unobtainable. Not listed in-game. Darkened Unobtainable. Not listed in-game. Available only in FTB Retro SSP. Obtaining this bee in Retro SSP pack described here: In FTB Retro SSP only, available by cross-breeding a Modest and a Wintry Bee with a block of Dark Matter (a block from Equivalent Exchange 2, not included in any other FTB packs) under the Apiary and a Mark 2 Antimatter Relay (also EE2) next to the Apiary with one Dark Matter's worth of EMC (energy matter currency, a value for all vanilla and some mod items; cobblestone has value one, diamond has value 8192, 8192 cobble equals one diamond) inside for each desired mutation. One pure princess and two pure drones costs 6 DM's worth of EMC. Not to be confused with the Darkened Bee added by Extra Bees. Reddened Unobtainable. Not listed in-game. Available only in FTB Retro SSP. Obtaining this bee in Retro SSP pack described here: In FTB Retro SSP only, available by cross-breeding a Darkened and a Tropical Bee with a block of Red Matter (the tier above Dark Matter in EE2 tech, used for end-game tools/armor) under the Apiary and a Mark 3 Antimatter Relay next to the Apiary with one Red Matter's worth of EMC inside for each desired mutation. One pure princess and two pure drones costs 6 RM's worth of EMC. Omega Unobtainable. Not listed in-game. Available only in FTB Retro SSP. Obtaining this bee in Retro SSP pack described here: In FTB Retro SSP only, available by cross-breeding a Darkened and a Reddened Bee in the Nether. Does not require EMC, but Reddened and Darkened Bees must first somehow acquire the requisite temperature/humidity tolerance to be bred in the Nether, as such tolerances are not default traits.

"Extinct- From Extra Bees" [Expand/Collapse]

Species Origin Special Notes Produce Perilous Unobtainable. Not listed in-game. Creeper effect (causes random explosions around the apiary/alveary not to be confused with creepers effect) Hazardous Unobtainable. Not listed in-game. Creeper effect (causes random explosions around the apiary/alveary not to be confused with creepers effect) Explosive Unobtainable. Not listed in-game. Creeper effect (causes random explosions around the apiary/alveary not to be confused with creepers effect)

The following 9 bee species are added by Extra Bees, but also require GregTech 4 to be enabled:

GregTech Required Bee Species [Expand/Collapse]
Galvanized Bee Invincible Bee Impregnable Bee Sodalite Bee Pyrite Bee Bauxite Bee Cinnabar Bee Sphalerite Bee Olivine Bee

See Also

• Tutorial: Bee Basics (Apiculture)
• Bee Breeding