Bee

A buzzing insect caught near beehives on fair days – mostly a stamina ingredient.

Bees are caught on the wing around beehives in sunny weather. Grab one and it drops straight into your inventory as an alchemy ingredient. They’re almost entirely about Stamina – restoring it, regenerating it, or ravaging someone else’s.

Alchemy effects

The effects are listed in the order you discover them by eating the ingredient or using it in a potion. Two ingredients make a potion when they share at least one effect.

  1. Restore Stamina – instantly restores spent Stamina. Also on: Bear Claws, Charred Skeever Hide, Eye of Sabre Cat, Hawk Beak, Histcarp, Honeycomb, Large Antlers, Mudcrab Chitin, Orange Dartwing, Pearl, Pine Thrush Egg, Powdered Mammoth Tusk, Purple Mountain Flower, Sabre Cat Tooth, Silverside Perch, Small Pearl, Torchbug Thorax, Wisp Wrappings.
  2. Ravage Stamina – a concentrated poison that lowers the target’s Stamina for a while. Also on: Berit’s Ashes, Bone Meal, Deathbell, Honeycomb, Thistle Branch.
  3. Regenerate Stamina – makes your Stamina regenerate faster for a while. Also on: Fly Amanita, Mora Tapinella, Scaly Pholiota.
  4. Weakness to Shock – a poison effect that makes the target take more shock damage. Also on: Giant Lichen, Hagraven Feathers, Void Salts.

Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 3 gold, weight 0.1.

Where to find it

  • Around beehives in daylight and fair weather. They respawn even if you've already looted the hive, and the hive itself usually holds one more.
  • Honeystrand Cave in the Rift: step in and out of the cave and new swarms keep appearing near the entrance hive.
  • Early on, there's a hive at the Riverwood exit towards Whiterun and another in a tree by the bandit camp on the road down from Helgen.
  • A tree-covered hill just west of the Whiterun gates often has a dozen or more bees on sunny days.
  • Fisherman's Island in Lake Ilinalta, Goldenglow Estate and the countryside around Riften.
  • Some mages carry them, and apothecary's satchels can contain them. With Hearthfire, a furnished apiary or greenhouse supplies them too.

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