Queen Bee

"The matriarch of jungle hives..."

The Queen Bee is a pre-Hardmode boss. She is summoned by breaking the Larva inside Bee Hives of the Underground Jungle, or by using an Abeemination anywhere within the Jungle. She is immune to the Confused debuff, and can inflict the Poisoned debuff.

While Queen Bee is alive, music Boss 4 will play.

Attacks
The Queen Bee has three distinct attack patterns:


 * She will level herself horizontally with the player and fly back and forth three times in an attempt to ram the player.
 * She will spawn Bees while hovering (which will include larger ones in Expert mode), which attack the player.
 * Similar to Hornets, the Queen Bee will rapidly fire poisonous stingers at the player. During this pattern, she will alternate between hovering above the player, and positioning herself to swoop in at the player from above.
 * Strangely, although being able to inflict the Poisoned debuff, Queen Bee is not immune to it herself.
 * In Expert mode, the lower her health is, the faster she'll do these attack patterns. This is most notable with her first attack, where she charges super quickly at ~1/10 HP

Tips

 * The Honey naturally found in Bee Hives can be used to craft Bottled Honey or provide passive health regeneration mid-fight. The Honey will slow down the player's movement, so it's best not to be in the Honey for too long.
 * The Bees do little damage, but can easily become an annoyance as they can push the player around. If the player doesn't have a Cobalt Shield or Obsidian Shield to avoid knockback, any grappling hook can be used to anchor the player to blocks.
 * Well placed Platforms and using Shurikens makes killing the Queen Bee fairly easy.
 * Using a Thorn Chakram or Blade of Grass can poison her, and can kill her easily. Most players defeat this boss late in pre-Hardmode, around the time when these weapons become obtained.
 * Bees spawned by the player will attack the Queen Bee.
 * Water Bolt is very effective at taking down the Queen Bee as the Bee Hive is shaped very easily for the projectiles to bounce around a lot.
 * If the player inadvertently breaks a Larva, and is unprepared for the fight, they can use a Magic Mirror or Recall Potion to teleport back to spawn. The Queen Bee will follow, but only to the border of the jungle, then it despawns. If the players spawn is near or in the jungle biome that The Queen Bee was spawned in, the player may have enough time to grab some Healing Potions and other supplies. It would be advisable to keep a campfire and Heart Lantern (and for magic users, a Star in a Bottle) near spawn, as well as a chest full of emergency supplies.
 * The Bezoar can be really useful as it negates the Poisoned debuff, which the Queen Bee uses very often, especially in Expert mode.
 * The Queen Bee can be easily farmed for Gold Coins because it's relatively high amount of Gold Coins and easiness to make an Abeemination and beat the Queen Bee.

Trivia

 * The Queen Bee has the second largest number of unique drops of any boss in the game at 14, one fewer than Plantera.
 * In real life, queen honey bees have a smooth stinger and are able to sting multiple times without dying.

History
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