By upping your relationship with them in my experience. I have had my Sims bond with them when they are irritated, wouldn't recommend it when they are enraged though :worried: , but now I get consistant normal quality honey. You can up your relationship with them while bonding when they are irritated because they don't always sting. Enraged though... I haven't yet found a way to keep them calm consistantly but for me they rock between calm and irritated. Once became enraged and then they needed a mite treatment and the rain also tend to enrage them or at least keep them in constant irritated state. Bringing them inside did help.