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Legend

7 years ago

Silly Question #2 - Mrs. Stingley's Bee Keeping Box - How do you get better quality honey?

I know that playing "classical music" to soothe the savage bees is a TS4 thing, but I figured, well, in for a penny, in for a pound. I've got the stereo playing beside the three bee boxes. Maybe it might quell the nasty little buggers, or maybe not. Either way, it's amusing to see poor sim dancing around screaming about being stung. C'est la vie.

I also put flowers beside the boxes, so that the bees would have something to do other than just buzz around the bee box.

Now let me get this straight: Smoke box... clean and feed bees. No smoke box -> Harvest honey? Is that the process? If so, I've been doing it wrong.

Any other suggestions on how to improve the quality of honey?

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Bettyboop55
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
For once a question I can answer :D The bee hives of my sims have never produced foul honey. Then again the best honey and beeswax I get is great so I would say the bees are content rather than mega happy.

I always place the hives next to the garden plants. So they have a good source of pollen.

The sims tend the bees every day. The process is smoke the box, clean the box, feed the bees and then harvest the honey and beeswax. It seems to work because the sim rarely gets stung. I find the bees like it best when the same sim does this every day. And just as in real life they know when their sim dies, so whoever takes over the tending might get stung the first couple of times they tend the box until a new relationship is built up.