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** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E21DaringDoubt Daring Doubt]]", a swarm of flyders -- spiders with insect wings -- appears inhabiting a grey variant of the classic donut-stack beehive with a single large opening in its middle, albeit draped with spiderwebs.
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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' GameMod ''Growthcraft'', bees are originally acquired from hives that look like yellowish globes dangling from tree foliage.
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** In the''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' GameMod ''Growthcraft'', bees are originally acquired from hives that look like yellowish globes dangling from tree foliage.
** The 19w34a snapshot adds bees along with [[https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Bee_hive their hives]], which look like blocky versions of this trope.
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* Zigzagged in ''VideoGame/BioShock'''s Apiary, where the domestic beehives are of the modern "super" style, but the feral hives have hornet's nest-style horizontal combs.
* The so-called "bees" in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' most resemble Asian Giant Hornets, both in the nests and individuals. Supplemental material more accurately calls them Hylian Hornets.
* The so-called "bees" in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' most resemble Asian Giant Hornets, both in the nests and individuals. Supplemental material more accurately calls them Hylian Hornets.
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* Believe it or not, ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' started as an aversion of this trope, as the only beehive seen there (cfr. ''Winnie the Pooh and the honey tree'') is [[CaptainObvious inside a hollow in a tree]], which is in keeping with how real honeybees build their hives. Other incarnations of the franchise, such as ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' and ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'', play it straight. While in the animated series beehives are as brown and egg-shaped as a large wasp nest, movies tend to shorten its length, put the entrance below and lighten its outer shell. Because of the sheer popularity of the franchise, it can be clearly considered the TropeCodifier.
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* Believe it or not, ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' started as an aversion of this trope, as the only beehive seen there (cfr. ''Winnie the Pooh and the honey tree'') is [[CaptainObvious inside a hollow in a tree]], which is in keeping with how real honeybees build their hives. Other incarnations of the franchise, such as ''Disney/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' and ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'', play it straight. While in the animated series beehives are as brown and egg-shaped as a large wasp nest, movies tend to shorten its length, put the entrance below and lighten its outer shell. Because of the sheer popularity of the franchise, it can be clearly considered the TropeCodifier.
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* There are some novelty bee hives that have this look, though the entrances are mostly moved on the side. These are mostly used to attract a wild bee colony so they will assist with pollination rather than to make honey. The shape is useful here as this trope is so ubiquitous that most people will know to stay away from it.
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*Averted in ''[[WesternAnimation/KirikouAndTheSorceress Kirikou And The Wild Beast]]''. When [[AllLovingHero Kirikou]] encounters a beehive, it looks exactly like the one in the page image, [[spoiler:Although [[BeeAfraid the bees' behavior against the hyena]] are not realistic]].
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* The ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/CreamedCherries'' averts this. The bees that kick off the conflict accurately have their nest resting inside of a tree hollow.
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* The ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/CreamedCherries'' averts this. The bees that kick off the conflict accurately have their nest resting inside of a tree hollow.
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* An artificial beehive looking very similar to a wasp nest was used until the 20th century on many farms. It was known as skep, a basket placed open-end down, which had been used for about 2,000 years. Unfortunately, they were too risky to use and the honey removal procedure often resulted in massive colony losses. However, the widespread use of the skip no doubt contributed to the ubiquity of this trope.
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* An artificial beehive looking very similar to a wasp nest was used until the 20th century on many farms. It was known as skep, a basket placed open-end down, which had been used for about 2,000 years. Unfortunately, they were too risky to use and the honey removal procedure often resulted in massive colony losses. However, the widespread use of the skip skep no doubt contributed to the ubiquity of this trope.
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* A An artificial beehive looking very similar to a wasp nest was used until the 20th century on many farms. It was known as skep, a basket placed open-end down, which had been used for about 2,000 years. Unfortunately, they were too risky to use and the honey removal procedure often resulted in massive colony losses. However, the widespread use of the skip no doubt contributed to the ubiquity of this trope.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': The bees in the episode "Beehive" initially live in a stock bee's nest.
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* Beehives in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' look exactly like wasp nests, even down to the grey colour.
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* Believe it or not, ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' started as an aversion of this trope, as the only beehive seen there (cfr. ''Winnie the Pooh and the honey tree'') is inside a [[CaptainObvious tree]], which is in keeping with how real honeybees build their hives. Other incarnations of the franchise, such as ''Disney/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' and ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'', play it straight. While in the animated series beehives are as brown and egg-shaped as a large wasp nest, movies tend to shorten its length, put the entrance below and lighten its outer shell. Because of the sheer popularity of the franchise, it can be clearly considered the TropeCodifier.
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* Believe it or not, ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' started as an aversion of this trope, as the only beehive seen there (cfr. ''Winnie the Pooh and the honey tree'') is inside a [[CaptainObvious inside a hollow in a tree]], which is in keeping with how real honeybees build their hives. Other incarnations of the franchise, such as ''Disney/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' and ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'', play it straight. While in the animated series beehives are as brown and egg-shaped as a large wasp nest, movies tend to shorten its length, put the entrance below and lighten its outer shell. Because of the sheer popularity of the franchise, it can be clearly considered the TropeCodifier.
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* As a rare non-cartoonish example, ''Series/{{Lost}}'' first season's sixth episode, "House of the Rising Sun", has a few key characters dealing with a MASSIVE, paper-made underground beehive. It looks more like a dome-shaped, hollow mushroom rather than your stereotypical beehive, but it's clearly different from real world beehives nonetheless.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** One such beehive was a decoration of Twilight's ArborealAbode, hanging from one of the tree's branches by three short stalks anchored to the same spot of wood. It was composed of five stacked rings and narrowed going downwards, with a single opening at its bottom. It was a regular feature of shots of Twilight's home up until the latter got blown up by Tirek in the Season 4 finale.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]" sees Twilight Sparkle dislodging one such beehive when she runs into a tree after getting startled by a flock of bats, which promptly lodges itself on her head.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E16ItAintEasyBeingBreezies It Ain't Easy Being Breezies]]", Seabreeze crashes into a beehive during his ill-fated attempt at facing the outside world by itself. Like most of the show's beehives, it is composed of a series of fat doughnut shapes stacked atop each other, thickened in the middle, tapering at its ends and attached to a branch by a short stalk. Somewhat unusually, however, it's brown rather than yellow, and doesn't seem to have a dedicated entrance hole -- Seabreeze simply made a hole in its side when he crashed into it. Its inside is hollow and lined with honeycombs along the walls, each home to an adult bee rather than honey or a larva or egg, as would be the case in real life.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E18AHealthOfInformation A Health of Information]]", the flash bees' hive resembles five yellow donuts stacked on top of each other, thin at the top and bottom and fat in the middle. It hangs from some unseen point in its tree's canopy by a long, vine-like stalk. Its opening is on the "donut" in the middle, and for some reason it's shaped like a cloud. It's hollow on the inside, and doesn't actually have honeycombs -- just faint hexagonal markings on its walls -- so it's a bit unclear where the copious quantities of honey Meadowbrook and Fluttershy extracted from it were actually ''kept''.
** One such beehive was a decoration of Twilight's ArborealAbode, hanging from one of the tree's branches by three short stalks anchored to the same spot of wood. It was composed of five stacked rings and narrowed going downwards, with a single opening at its bottom. It was a regular feature of shots of Twilight's home up until the latter got blown up by Tirek in the Season 4 finale.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]" sees Twilight Sparkle dislodging one such beehive when she runs into a tree after getting startled by a flock of bats, which promptly lodges itself on her head.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E16ItAintEasyBeingBreezies It Ain't Easy Being Breezies]]", Seabreeze crashes into a beehive during his ill-fated attempt at facing the outside world by itself. Like most of the show's beehives, it is composed of a series of fat doughnut shapes stacked atop each other, thickened in the middle, tapering at its ends and attached to a branch by a short stalk. Somewhat unusually, however, it's brown rather than yellow, and doesn't seem to have a dedicated entrance hole -- Seabreeze simply made a hole in its side when he crashed into it. Its inside is hollow and lined with honeycombs along the walls, each home to an adult bee rather than honey or a larva or egg, as would be the case in real life.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E18AHealthOfInformation A Health of Information]]", the flash bees' hive resembles five yellow donuts stacked on top of each other, thin at the top and bottom and fat in the middle. It hangs from some unseen point in its tree's canopy by a long, vine-like stalk. Its opening is on the "donut" in the middle, and for some reason it's shaped like a cloud. It's hollow on the inside, and doesn't actually have honeycombs -- just faint hexagonal markings on its walls -- so it's a bit unclear where the copious quantities of honey Meadowbrook and Fluttershy extracted from it were actually ''kept''.
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A beehive in fiction is going to look like a bunch of golden stacked donuts with a little hole in the bottom or side, right? Because that's what beehives look like, right? But, wait, aren't they honeycombs?
Whenever a beehive appears either in cartoon or a video game - or even in live-action works sometimes - it's always guaranteed to look a bit like a [[ArtisticLicenseBiology wasp-nest]], usually the type [[WeAllLiveInAmerica most Americans are more familiar with]]: that of a bald faced hornet. However, these nests are grey and flaky, which can be hard to animate and just plain unsuitable for a story so Stock Hives may actually look more like [[MixAndMatchCritters a mix of different bee and wasp species' hives]].
Whenever a beehive appears either in cartoon or a video game - or even in live-action works sometimes - it's always guaranteed to look a bit like a [[ArtisticLicenseBiology wasp-nest]], usually the type [[WeAllLiveInAmerica most Americans are more familiar with]]: that of a bald faced hornet. However, these nests are grey and flaky, which can be hard to animate and just plain unsuitable for a story so Stock Hives may actually look more like [[MixAndMatchCritters a mix of different bee and wasp species' hives]].
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A beehive in fiction is going to look like a bunch of golden stacked donuts with a little hole in the bottom or side, right? Because that's what beehives look like, right? But, wait, aren't they just made up of honeycombs?
Whenever a beehive appears either in cartoon or a video game- -- or even in live-action works sometimes - -- it's always guaranteed to look a bit like a [[ArtisticLicenseBiology wasp-nest]], usually the type [[WeAllLiveInAmerica most Americans are more familiar with]]: that of a bald faced hornet. However, these nests are grey and flaky, which can be hard to animate and just plain unsuitable for a story so story. As such, Stock Hives may actually look more like [[MixAndMatchCritters a mix of different bee and wasp species' hives]].
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' by the regular beehives (which are shaped like a Langstroth Hive - aka, a "Bee Box"), but played straight by the Zubba Nest in Click Clock Wood. Weirdly, the Zubbas look more like hornets or wasps, but their hive is full of honey.
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' by the regular beehives (which are shaped like a Langstroth Hive - -- aka, a "Bee Box"), but played straight by the Zubba Nest in Click Clock Wood. Weirdly, the Zubbas look more like hornets or wasps, but their hive is full of honey.
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* Averted in ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears''. Wild beehives are portrayed as being inside a tree, just like in RealLife.
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Keep in mind this behaviour is anything but true in nature; most honey bees (except for africanized hybrids, a.k.a. "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast killer bees]]") will defend their hive only in desperate situations. Instead, stinging the intruder to death is a key behaviour of larger eusocial insects, such as wasps and hornets. Moreover, beehives tend to be curtain-like structures in the real world. Bees start making their honeycombs from a branch and the completed hive would look like a curtain made out from wax, either perfectly straight and flat or wrapping around a branch like a spiral.
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Keep in mind this behaviour is [[SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying anything but true in nature; nature]]; most honey bees (except for africanized hybrids, a.k.a. "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast killer bees]]") will defend their hive only in desperate situations. Instead, stinging the intruder to death is a key behaviour of larger eusocial insects, such as wasps and hornets. Moreover, beehives tend to be curtain-like structures in the real world. Bees start making their honeycombs from a branch and the completed hive would look like a curtain made out from wax, either perfectly straight and flat or wrapping around a branch like a spiral.
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Confusing things further, domestic beehives ("skeps") prior to the invention of the moveable comb hive in the 19th century ''did'' look a bit like this, being dome-shaped structures made of (yellow) straw, although they weren't suspended from trees.
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* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': Beehives resemble wasp nests. Interestingly, Killer Bee Hives are of a different appearance but are referred as Wasp Hives in the in-game files, implying that Killer Bees were originally meant to be wasps.
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* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': Beehives resemble a wasp nests.nest crossed with an old style of ''artificial'' beehive called a skep. Interestingly, Killer Bee Hives are of a different appearance but are referred as Wasp Hives in the in-game files, implying that Killer Bees were originally meant to be wasps.
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' by the regular beehives (which are shaped like a Langstroth Hive - aka, a "Bee Box"), but played straight by the Zubba Nest in Click Clock Wood. Weirdly, the Zubbas look more like hornets or wasps, but their hive is full of honey.
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* Believe it or not, ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' started as an aversion of this trope, as the only beehive seen there (cfr. ''Winnie the Pooh and the honey tree'') is inside a [[CaptainObvious tree]], which is in keeping with how real honeybees build their hives. Other incarnations of the franchise, such as ''Disney/TheNewAdventuresOfWinniethePooh'' and ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'', play it straight. While in the animated series beehives are as brown and egg-shaped as a large wasp nest, movies tend to shorten its length, put the entrance below and lighten its outer shell. Because of the sheer popularity of the franchise, it can be clearly considered the TropeCodifier.
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* Believe it or not, ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' started as an aversion of this trope, as the only beehive seen there (cfr. ''Winnie the Pooh and the honey tree'') is inside a [[CaptainObvious tree]], which is in keeping with how real honeybees build their hives. Other incarnations of the franchise, such as ''Disney/TheNewAdventuresOfWinniethePooh'' ''Disney/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' and ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'', play it straight. While in the animated series beehives are as brown and egg-shaped as a large wasp nest, movies tend to shorten its length, put the entrance below and lighten its outer shell. Because of the sheer popularity of the franchise, it can be clearly considered the TropeCodifier.
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* Believe it or not, ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' started as an aversion of this trope, as the only beehive seen there (cfr. ''Winnie the Pooh and the honey tree'') is inside a [[CaptainObvious tree]], which is in keeping with how real honeybees build their hives. Other incarnations of the franchise, such as ''Disney/TheNewAdventuresofWinniethePooh'' and ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'', play it straight. While in the animated series beehives are as brown and egg-shaped as a large wasp nest, movies tend to shorten its length, put the entrance below and lighten its outer shell. Because of the sheer popularity of the franchise, it can be clearly considered the TropeCodifier.
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* Br'er Rabbit finds a grey one hidden in a bush in ''Film/SongOfTheSouth''. He tricks Br'er Bear inside saying that it's his "laughing place". Bear gets the hive stuck on his nose.
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* WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup plays with one in ''Disney/SpringtimeForPluto'' as if it were a ball. Not soon after that he has to deal with the bees living inside.
* On ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', jellyfish live in stock hives full of jelly. As with everything in the show, it falls under RuleOfFunny.
* On ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', jellyfish live in stock hives full of jelly. As with everything in the show, it falls under RuleOfFunny.
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* As a rare non-cartoonish example, ''{{Series/Lost}}'' first season's sixth episode ("House of the rising sun") has a few key characters dealing with a MASSIVE, paper-made underground beehive. It looks more like a dome-shaped, hollow mushroom rather than your stereotypical beehive, but it's clearly different from real world beehives nonethless.
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* As a rare non-cartoonish example, ''{{Series/Lost}}'' ''Series/{{Lost}}'' first season's sixth episode ("House episode, "House of the rising sun") Rising Sun", has a few key characters dealing with a MASSIVE, paper-made underground beehive. It looks more like a dome-shaped, hollow mushroom rather than your stereotypical beehive, but it's clearly different from real world beehives nonethless. nonetheless.
* Rebuses on ''Series/{{Concentration}}'' used this design whenever the sound of ''hive'' was needed, not only on the actual show, but also in Milton Bradley's {{home game}}s.
* Rebuses on ''Series/{{Concentration}}'' used this design whenever the sound of ''hive'' was needed, not only on the actual show, but also in Milton Bradley's {{home game}}s.
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* ''Videogame/DontStarve'': beehives resemble wasp nests. Interestingly, Killer Bee Hives are of a different appearance but are referred as Wasp Hives in the in-game files, inferring that Killer Bees were originally meant to be wasps.
* ''Videogame/AnimalCrossing'' - If you shake a tree, a paper wasp nest-like bee hive could possibly fall out and the swarm will try and get you.
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* ''Videogame/DontStarve'': beehives ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': Beehives resemble wasp nests. Interestingly, Killer Bee Hives are of a different appearance but are referred as Wasp Hives in the in-game files, inferring implying that Killer Bees were originally meant to be wasps.
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* Vespiqueen from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' plays with this trope. Although she's a giant bee-wasp hybrid, her abdomen is wasphive-shaped and contains a small pattern of hexagonal cells.
* The casual computer games ''Royal Envoy 2'' and ''Royal Envoy: Campaign for the Crown'' have wild bee hives depicted as a pineapple-shaped stack of alternating yellow and dark rings, with the hole at the bottom and the branch also at the bottom (to allow them to be placed anywhere on the scene). The bees flying over nearby building sites, rendering them inhospitable to homeowners (and lowering the happiness score). One task on some levels is to build a proper hive for the bees (tiny house-like structures with smooth walls and a roof) and thereby domesticate them.
* The casual computer games ''Royal Envoy 2'' and ''Royal Envoy: Campaign for the Crown'' have wild bee hives depicted as a pineapple-shaped stack of alternating yellow and dark rings, with the hole at the bottom and the branch also at the bottom (to allow them to be placed anywhere on the scene). The bees flying over nearby building sites, rendering them inhospitable to homeowners (and lowering the happiness score). One task on some levels is to build a proper hive for the bees (tiny house-like structures with smooth walls and a roof) and thereby domesticate them.
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* Vespiqueen from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' plays with this trope. Although she's a giant bee-wasp hybrid, her abdomen is wasphive-shaped shaped like a wasp hive and contains a small pattern of hexagonal cells.
* The casual computer games ''Royal Envoy 2'' and ''Royal Envoy: Campaign for the Crown'' have wildbee hives beehives depicted as a pineapple-shaped stack of alternating yellow and dark rings, with the hole at the bottom and the branch also at the bottom (to allow them to be placed anywhere on the scene). The bees flying fly over nearby building sites, rendering them inhospitable to homeowners (and lowering the happiness score). One task on some levels is to build a proper hive for the bees (tiny house-like structures with smooth walls and a roof) and thereby domesticate them.
* The casual computer games ''Royal Envoy 2'' and ''Royal Envoy: Campaign for the Crown'' have wild
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* Nutty from ''HappyTreeFriends'', in the episode "[[HorribleCampingTrip Take a hike]]", finds a rare purple-colored variety. Bonus points for the spilling honey hitting his forehead.
* Averted in one episode of ''JungleCubs''. Baloo finds a beehive set on a cliff while sleepwalking, and said hive looks ''exactly'' like its RealLife counterpart. Oddly, the swarming bees are dumb enough to let one huge chunk of their honeycombs to fall down and being picked up by him.
* Averted in one episode of ''JungleCubs''. Baloo finds a beehive set on a cliff while sleepwalking, and said hive looks ''exactly'' like its RealLife counterpart. Oddly, the swarming bees are dumb enough to let one huge chunk of their honeycombs to fall down and being picked up by him.
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* A very similar wasp-nest like beehive was being used 'til the 20th century in many farms. It was known as skep, a basket placed open-end-down, which had been used for about 2000 years. Unfortunately, they were too risky to use and the honey removing procedure often resulted in massive colony losses.
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* A beehive looking very similar wasp-nest like beehive to a wasp nest was being used 'til until the 20th century in on many farms. It was known as skep, a basket placed open-end-down, open-end down, which had been used for about 2000 2,000 years. Unfortunately, they were too risky to use and the honey removing removal procedure often resulted in massive colony losses.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[https://www.reddit.com/r/Beekeeping/comments/2w0g7n/someone_please_explain_to_me_the_winniethepooh Oddly, most cartoons demonstrate something like a hornet's nest as a bee hive.]]]]
A beehive in fiction is going to look like a bunch of golden stacked donuts with a little hole in the bottom or side, right? Because that's what beehives look like, right? But, wait, aren't they honeycombs?
Whenever a beehive appears either in cartoon or a video game - or even in live action works sometimes - it's always guaranteed it look a bit like a [[ArtisticLicenseBiology wasp-nest]], usually the type [[WeAllLiveInAmerica most Americans are more familiar with]]: a bald faced hornet's. However these nests are grey and flaky, which can be hard to animate and just plain unsuitable for a story so Stock Hives may actually look more like [[MixAndMatchCritters a mix of different bee and wasp species']].
Another aspect of the artistic license is that wasp nests are a greyish, light-brown colour, whereas fictional beehives seem to be as [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience golden as the honey stored inside]]. As if that wasn't enough, honey drops may fall from the entrance just like a water drop from a dripping tap. A bees' honeycomb may be golden, but won't actually leak.
ButWaitTheresMore!
Similarly to ChekhovsVolcano, it's almost certain the bees will come out from the hole and chase the character carrying the IdiotBall and, obviously, their honey. (Usually this is the ButtMonkey, villains or gluttonous characters.)
Keep in mind this behaviour is anything but true in nature; most honey bees (except for africanized hybrids, a.k.a. "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast killer bees]]") will defend their hive only in desperate situations. Instead, stinging the intruder to death is a key behaviour of larger eusocial insects, such as wasps and hornets. Moreover, beehives tend to be curtain-like structures in the real world. Bees start making their honeycombs from a branch and the completed hive would look like a curtain made out from wax, either perfectly straight and flat or wrapping around a branch like a spiral.
Before the actual chase, many of the designated victims get their head [[HelpImStuck stuck into the hive]]; another reason the animators tend to move the entrance to its bottom.
Almost always the ultimate source of BeeAfraid. Generally [[AvertedTrope averted]] in movies and non-Disney comics. Partly caused by SmallReferencePools (it's quite hard to find a wild beehive nowadays) and justified in older works by the GrandfatherClause.
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!!Examples
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* Believe it or not, ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' started as an aversion of this trope, as the only beehive seen there (cfr. ''Winnie the Pooh and the honey tree'') is inside a [[CaptainObvious tree]], which is in keeping with how real honeybees build their hives. Other incarnations of the franchise, such as Disney/TheNewAdventuresofWinniethePooh and Disney/WinnieThePooh, play it straight. While in the animated series beehives are as brown and egg-shaped as a large wasp nest, movies tend to shorten its length, put the entrance below and lighten its outer shell. Because of the sheer popularity of the franchise, it can be clearly considered the TropeCodifier.
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[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
*As a rare non-cartoonish example, ''{{Series/Lost}}'' first season's sixth episode ("House of the rising sun") has a few key characters dealing with a MASSIVE, paper-made underground beehive. It looks more like a dome-shaped, hollow mushroom rather than your stereotypical beehive, but it's clearly different from real world beehives nonethless.
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
*''Videogame/DontStarve'': beehives resemble wasp nests. Interestingly, Killer Bee Hives are of a different appearance but are referred as Wasp Hives in the in-game files, inferring that Killer Bees were originally meant to be wasps.
*''Videogame/AnimalCrossing'' - If you shake a tree, a paper wasp nest-like bee hive could possibly fall out and the swarm will try and get you.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has giant hives deep underground in the jungle that resembles Wasp Nests. Usually forming giant hive with honeycomb patterns and honey, as well as a Queen Bee BonusBoss.
*In the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' GameMod ''Growthcraft'', bees are originally acquired from hives that look like yellowish globes dangling from tree foliage.
* Vespiqueen from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' plays with this trope. Although she's a giant bee-wasp hybrid, her abdomen is wasphive-shaped and contains a small pattern of hexagonal cells.
* The casual computer games ''Royal Envoy 2'' and ''Royal Envoy: Campaign for the Crown'' have wild bee hives depicted as a pineapple-shaped stack of alternating yellow and dark rings, with the hole at the bottom and the branch also at the bottom (to allow them to be placed anywhere on the scene). The bees flying over nearby building sites, rendering them inhospitable to homeowners (and lowering the happiness score). One task on some levels is to build a proper hive for the bees (tiny house-like structures with smooth walls and a roof) and thereby domesticate them.
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
*Nutty from ''HappyTreeFriends'', in the episode "[[HorribleCampingTrip Take a hike]]", finds a rare purple-colored variety. Bonus points for the spilling honey hitting his forehead.
*Averted in one episode of ''JungleCubs''. Baloo finds a beehive set on a cliff while sleepwalking, and said hive looks ''exactly'' like its RealLife counterpart. Oddly, the swarming bees are dumb enough to let one huge chunk of their honeycombs to fall down and being picked up by him.
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[[folder:RealLife]]
*A very similar wasp-nest like beehive was being used 'til the 20th century in many farms. It was known as skep, a basket placed open-end-down, which had been used for about 2000 years. Unfortunately, they were too risky to use and the honey removing procedure often resulted in massive colony losses.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[https://www.reddit.com/r/Beekeeping/comments/2w0g7n/someone_please_explain_to_me_the_winniethepooh Oddly, most cartoons demonstrate something like a hornet's nest as a bee hive.]]]]
A beehive in fiction is going to look like a bunch of golden stacked donuts with a little hole in the bottom or side, right? Because that's what beehives look like, right? But, wait, aren't they honeycombs?
Whenever a beehive appears either in cartoon or a video game - or even in live action works sometimes - it's always guaranteed it look a bit like a [[ArtisticLicenseBiology wasp-nest]], usually the type [[WeAllLiveInAmerica most Americans are more familiar with]]: a bald faced hornet's. However these nests are grey and flaky, which can be hard to animate and just plain unsuitable for a story so Stock Hives may actually look more like [[MixAndMatchCritters a mix of different bee and wasp species']].
Another aspect of the artistic license is that wasp nests are a greyish, light-brown colour, whereas fictional beehives seem to be as [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience golden as the honey stored inside]]. As if that wasn't enough, honey drops may fall from the entrance just like a water drop from a dripping tap. A bees' honeycomb may be golden, but won't actually leak.
ButWaitTheresMore!
Similarly to ChekhovsVolcano, it's almost certain the bees will come out from the hole and chase the character carrying the IdiotBall and, obviously, their honey. (Usually this is the ButtMonkey, villains or gluttonous characters.)
Keep in mind this behaviour is anything but true in nature; most honey bees (except for africanized hybrids, a.k.a. "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast killer bees]]") will defend their hive only in desperate situations. Instead, stinging the intruder to death is a key behaviour of larger eusocial insects, such as wasps and hornets. Moreover, beehives tend to be curtain-like structures in the real world. Bees start making their honeycombs from a branch and the completed hive would look like a curtain made out from wax, either perfectly straight and flat or wrapping around a branch like a spiral.
Before the actual chase, many of the designated victims get their head [[HelpImStuck stuck into the hive]]; another reason the animators tend to move the entrance to its bottom.
Almost always the ultimate source of BeeAfraid. Generally [[AvertedTrope averted]] in movies and non-Disney comics. Partly caused by SmallReferencePools (it's quite hard to find a wild beehive nowadays) and justified in older works by the GrandfatherClause.
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!!Examples
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[folder:FilmAnimated]]
* Believe it or not, ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' started as an aversion of this trope, as the only beehive seen there (cfr. ''Winnie the Pooh and the honey tree'') is inside a [[CaptainObvious tree]], which is in keeping with how real honeybees build their hives. Other incarnations of the franchise, such as Disney/TheNewAdventuresofWinniethePooh and Disney/WinnieThePooh, play it straight. While in the animated series beehives are as brown and egg-shaped as a large wasp nest, movies tend to shorten its length, put the entrance below and lighten its outer shell. Because of the sheer popularity of the franchise, it can be clearly considered the TropeCodifier.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
*As a rare non-cartoonish example, ''{{Series/Lost}}'' first season's sixth episode ("House of the rising sun") has a few key characters dealing with a MASSIVE, paper-made underground beehive. It looks more like a dome-shaped, hollow mushroom rather than your stereotypical beehive, but it's clearly different from real world beehives nonethless.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:VideoGames]]
*''Videogame/DontStarve'': beehives resemble wasp nests. Interestingly, Killer Bee Hives are of a different appearance but are referred as Wasp Hives in the in-game files, inferring that Killer Bees were originally meant to be wasps.
*''Videogame/AnimalCrossing'' - If you shake a tree, a paper wasp nest-like bee hive could possibly fall out and the swarm will try and get you.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has giant hives deep underground in the jungle that resembles Wasp Nests. Usually forming giant hive with honeycomb patterns and honey, as well as a Queen Bee BonusBoss.
*In the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' GameMod ''Growthcraft'', bees are originally acquired from hives that look like yellowish globes dangling from tree foliage.
* Vespiqueen from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' plays with this trope. Although she's a giant bee-wasp hybrid, her abdomen is wasphive-shaped and contains a small pattern of hexagonal cells.
* The casual computer games ''Royal Envoy 2'' and ''Royal Envoy: Campaign for the Crown'' have wild bee hives depicted as a pineapple-shaped stack of alternating yellow and dark rings, with the hole at the bottom and the branch also at the bottom (to allow them to be placed anywhere on the scene). The bees flying over nearby building sites, rendering them inhospitable to homeowners (and lowering the happiness score). One task on some levels is to build a proper hive for the bees (tiny house-like structures with smooth walls and a roof) and thereby domesticate them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
*Nutty from ''HappyTreeFriends'', in the episode "[[HorribleCampingTrip Take a hike]]", finds a rare purple-colored variety. Bonus points for the spilling honey hitting his forehead.
*Averted in one episode of ''JungleCubs''. Baloo finds a beehive set on a cliff while sleepwalking, and said hive looks ''exactly'' like its RealLife counterpart. Oddly, the swarming bees are dumb enough to let one huge chunk of their honeycombs to fall down and being picked up by him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:RealLife]]
*A very similar wasp-nest like beehive was being used 'til the 20th century in many farms. It was known as skep, a basket placed open-end-down, which had been used for about 2000 years. Unfortunately, they were too risky to use and the honey removing procedure often resulted in massive colony losses.
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