History Main / StockBeehive

* ''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.

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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.]]]]

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]'': As part of the game's ChainOfDeals, Link has to get Tarin to knock a honeycomb out of a tree in order to trade to a chef bear. The honeycomb in question looks mostly like a wasp's nest, consisting of seven downward-pointing cells arranged in a hexagonal pattern and hanging from a thin stem.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'': Beehives, minus the bees, can be found at various points in the game. They're spherical and brown, and covered with hexagonal cells on their undersides.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' has an odd example. Link can knock round, papery hives from trees and retrieve bee larvae to use as bait... but the adults are specifically identified as hornets.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'': Beehives resembling stout yellow cones with their flat surfaces dotted with cells can be found hanging on trees throughout the game.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'': Beehives are ovoid objects composed of overlapping scale-like plates, and with multiple small holes for their inhabits to enter and leave through. Notably, their inhabitants are once again referred to as hornets.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'': Courser bees inhabit small circular hives consisting of several hexagonal cells, filled with either honey or white larvae, and hanging upside-down from tree branches by a small stem.

* Many ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games feature this due to a translation error. If you shake a tree, something resembling a paper wasp nest may fall out of the tree; immediately after it hits the ground, you get attacked by the "bees" living inside, which resemble wasps. This is because they ''are'' wasps, but the word used to refer to them in Japanese ("hachi") can refer to both bees and wasps, and the English localizers made an incorrect guess as to which meaning was correct. ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' eventually [[AvertedTrope averts]] this, by correctly referring to the insects as wasps and the nests as wasp nests (though wasp nests can be used to craft bee-themed items such as beehives and honeycomb wallpaper... somehow).

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'': As part of the game's ChainOfDeals, Link has to get Tarin to knock a honeycomb out of a tree in order to trade to a chef bear. The honeycomb in question looks mostly like a wasp's nest, consisting of seven downward-pointing cells arranged in a hexagonal pattern and hanging from a thin stem.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': Beehives, minus the bees, can be found at various points in the game. They're spherical and brown, and covered with hexagonal cells on their undersides.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' is an odd example. Link can knock round, papery hives from trees and retrieve bee larvae to use as bait... but the adults are specifically identified as hornets.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'': Beehives resembling stout yellow cones with their flat surfaces dotted with cells can be found hanging on trees throughout the game.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': Beehives are ovoid objects composed of overlapping scale-like plates, and with multiple small holes for their inhabits to enter and leave through. Notably, their inhabitants are once again referred to as hornets.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Courser bees inhabit small circular hives consisting of several hexagonal cells, filled with either honey or white larvae, and hanging upside-down from tree branches by a small stem.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In "[[HorribleCampingTrip Take a Hike]]", Nutty finds a rare purple-colored variety when spilling honey hits his forehead.

* An episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Peabody's Improbable History]]'' has Mr. Peabody [[ItMakesSenseInContext drop a beehive onto]] [[Myth/RobinHood Prince John]]'s head. Although the beehive is of the stock cartoon type, it avoids the usual trope of the bottom entrance engulfing the victim's head, as Mr. Peabody turns it upside-down before dropping it.

* [[MrAltDisney Roy Brisby]], creator of Bizzy Bee in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', built a giant one as part of a theme park, an {{Expy}} of EPCOT.

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.

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.

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.)

* 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.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': If you shake a tree, a beehive resembling a paper wasp nest can fall out, and the swarm will try and get you. ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' eventually [[AvertedTrope averts]] this, by renaming bees to wasps.

* 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 skep no doubt contributed to the ubiquity of this trope.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' has Mr. Peabody [[ItMakesSenseInContext drop a beehive onto]] [[Myth/RobinHood Prince John]]'s head. Although the beehive is of the stock cartoon type, it avoids the usual trope of the bottom entrance engulfing the victim's head, as Mr. Peabody turns it upside-down before dropping it.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' has Mr. Peabody [[ItMakesSenseInContext drop a beehive onto]] [[Myth/RobinHood Prince John]]'s head. Although the beehive is of the stock cartoon type, it avoids the usual trope of the bottom engulfing the victim's head, as Mr. Peabody turns it upside-down before dropping it.

* ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'': Br'er Rabbit finds a grey one hidden in a bush. He tricks Br'er Bear inside saying that it's his "laughing place". Bear gets the hive stuck on his nose.

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. As such, Stock Hives may actually look more like [[MixAndMatchCritters a mix of different bee and wasp species' hives]].

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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{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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* Believe it or not, ''WesternAnimation/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 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 ''WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh|2011}}'', 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.
* 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.
* 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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* Averted in ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'', where honeybees are portrayed nesting inside trees just like in RealLife. With the very first book ''The Big Honey Hunt'' featuring Papa and Brother following a bee to its hive inside a honey tree.
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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.
* 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.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': If you shake a tree, a beehive resembling a paper wasp nest could possibly fall out, and the swarm will try and get you.
** ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' finally [[AvertedTrope averts]] this, by renaming bees to wasps. In the same game, you can pick up the wasp nests and use them for DIY projects.
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'''s 1.15 update adds bees along with [[https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Bee_hive their hives]], which look like blocky versions of this trope.

* Vespiquen from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' plays with this trope. Although she's a giant bee-wasp hybrid, her abdomen is 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 wild 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 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.
* 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.
* Beehives in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' look exactly like wasp nests, even down to the grey colour.
* 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.
* In ''VideoGame/BugFables'', Bee Kingdom Hive resembles the yellow skep hanging on a tree brench. Averted with the Wasp Kingdom Hive, which looks exactly like what a wasp nest would look like.
* VideoGame/MonsterBoyAndTheCursedKingdom has cartoon beehives, that can be caused to fall down with a GroundPound. A necessary point in the fight against the snake boss.

* Nutty from ''WebAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/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 be picked up by him.
* WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup plays with one in ''WesternAnimation/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.

** 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''.
** 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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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.

** ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' finally [[AvertedTrope averts]] this, by renaming bees to wasps.

* Vespiqueen from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' plays with this trope. Although she's a giant bee-wasp hybrid, her abdomen is shaped like a wasp hive and contains a small pattern of hexagonal cells.

* Averted in ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'', where honeybees are portrayed nesting inside trees just like in RealLife.

** ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' finally {{Avert}}s this, by renaming bees to wasps.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'':
** 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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* 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.

* 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 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.

* 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.