Thanks for the feedback. I forgot to mention that my bees are inside a completely enclosed greenhouse. There is no thermostat, but I suppose I could add one. All of the plants inside say they are "sheltered".
I'll have to play around with flower arrangements at some point. I was lazy and used the Gallery go download a room with a perfect crocus plant to place in my greenhouse to be able to get the crocus flowers. (A tip I picked up from another thread about bees-- I wanted to thank them but I couldn't reply without necroposting).
I hadn't planned on having my Sim do flower arranging as it doesn't go with the story & it takes a lot of time working on his career as a scientist. I did an earlier build where I used cheat codes to max his career, but I felt like I missed out on some of the gameplay of building up the career so I used an earlier saved version to start over again. I'm still trying to figure out how to save his home lot to my gallery without saving the sim along with it. Despite having had the game for several years, I haven't played much because real life stuff has been occupying my time.
I had two irritated hives for awhile, but the 2nd one calmed down after "bond with bees" interaction. The oldest beehive seems to be the one that stays perpetually irritated. I wonder if they don't like one of the plants nearby? Maybe my tentacle plant bothers them since it's from an alien world? I tried moving it away for awhile and bonding with bees but it didn't seem to remove the "irritated" buff so I put it back. You'd think there would be some sort of indicator that it irritates bees if that was the case though. The bees pollinate it without a problem.
I'm also wondering if there is some item, mod, or cheat I can use to prevent my bees from getting mites.
As an aside, if I add an extra floor to my greenhouse just to make the roof higher & had all windows on the sides on the upper floor, will it still function as a greenhouse? Or should I just make the walls taller for my trees?
