Queen Bee

"The matriarch of jungle hives..."

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

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 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 swooping at them.
 * 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

Achievement
Sting Operation is the achievement you earn for defeating Queen Bee for the first time ( only).

Drops

 * Defeating the Queen Bee will yield one of three weapons: the Bee Keeper, Bee Gun, or The Bee's Knees. Each has an equal 33% chance of being dropped, but one will always be dropped when the boss is slain.
 * The Hive Wand and Honey Comb each have independent 33% chances, respectively, to drop in addition to one of those three items (one may drop, both may drop, or neither may drop).
 * When the Hive Wand does not drop, there is a 50% chance that one piece of the Bee costume will drop.
 * Additionally, the Nectar and Honeyed Goggles each have completely independent 6.7% and 5% chances of dropping, respectively.

Tips

 * The Honey naturally found in Bee Hives can be used to craft Bottled Honey or provide passive health regeneration mid-fight, but be careful to avoid being knocked into it.
 * The bees do little damage, but can easily become an annoyance as they can push the player around. In the case that you don't have a Cobalt Shield or Obsidian Shield yet to avoid knockback, any Grappling Hooks can be used to anchor yourself to blocks.
 * Well placed Platforms and using Shurikens makes killing the Queen Bee 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.
 * Weapons like the Beenade won't work because bees won't attack the Queen Bee.

Trivia

 * The theme music is the same as the music on consoles and mobile when fighting the Eye of Cthulhu or Ocram.
 * The Queen Bee has the most unique drops of any boss in the game, with 14.