Bee

   

This article is about the species. For the Wario Land II enemy, see Bee (Wario Land II).

Not to be confused with Honeybee, a species from Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2, or Bumblebee, another enemy in Yoshi's Story.

Bee
A model of a Bee in Super Mario Sunshine
General information
First appearance	Yoshi's Story (1998)
Latest appearance	Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (2022)
Game information
Leader	Queen Bee
Homeland	Honeyhive Galaxy
Related species	Bzzap! Bumbler Stingby

Bees are real-world insects which have made appearances in the Mario franchise and its spinoffs. Bees make their first Mario-related appearance in Yoshi's Story.

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Behavior

Bees are often located around their beehives. They are generally peaceful if undisturbed, but if someone gets in the way of the bees, they try to attack that character.

In Yoshi's Story

Bees appear as enemies, and they fly around their beehive in swarms, forming a large hand shape to prevent a Yoshi from passing them. If a Yoshi walks slowly, the Bees do not bother him, but if Yoshi throws an egg at their beehive, the bees comes to attack him.

In Mario Party series

Mario Party 2

In the minigame Honeycomb Havoc, whenever a character ends receiving a beehive, a group of bees come out to attack them, eliminating that character from the minigame.

Mario Party 7

Bees appear in the minigame Big Dripper, where the characters must duck down to avoid the swarm while collecting their dripping honey. In addition, the minigame Buzzstormer involves the characters piloting bee-like aircraft.

Mario Party DS

At DK's Stone Statue, there is an Event Space where bees emerge from their hive with coins that can be collected.

During the minigame Hedge Honcho, the characters encounter a few bees along their path as they push away the leaves. Unlike with ladybugs, a character must avoid touching a bee, otherwise it stings the character, briefly stunning them. Instead, the character has to wait for the bee to fly off before they can continue pushing away the leaves.

Mario Party 10

Bees in Mario Party 10

Bees appear in the minigame Beeline Shrine, where they serve as the main obstacles.

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Mario Party Superstars

Bees return in the Mario Party 2 minigame Honeycomb Havoc, acting identically as in the minigame's original iteration.

In Super Mario Sunshine

Bees are found in Beehives, and if Mario was to get too close to them, they would swarm around him and possibly sting him, causing Mario to lose health. Although dangerous to Mario alone, Yoshi can eat them and get a coin out of them. Once eating all of them, a Blue Coin will appear.

In Mario & Luigi series

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

Bees are encountered as enemies exclusively amongst Beehoss, which are enemies themselves. A Beehoss can summon Bees from its honeycomb during battle.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team

Bees return as enemies alongside Beehoss. A difference is that if any bee is counterattacked and defeated on the Beehoss's turn, the remaining bees return to attack either Mario or Luigi, depending on who counterattacked them, and this attack cannot be avoided.

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey

Bees now use their design from Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. They retain their role in the main game as well as the Bowser Jr.'s Journey campaign, which also features them as obstacles.