Is there a way to excel the honey-making process?

[emilycm617]

I want to make a honey cake for my sim's birthday as I have never seen it before, but I need honey to make it and my bee box has said I have no honey for quite a while now. Is there any way I can make it easier and faster for my bees to make honey? Do I need to put flowers around them? Thanks in advance

[MissTrips]

Every morning my bees will swarm out and surround my trees and plants, so yeah. I would recommend planting a few harvestables near by.  It tends to fill up every 3 days or so for me.

[Playalot]

Welcome to the forum 

Having a full relationship with the bees will grant you excellent honey. You do really need plants around them which the bees will pollinate autonomously at some point and the honey amount will slowly grow until the when hovered over the box will say 'full'. Or something similar.

Also gathering the swarm and then sending them to pollinate seems to increase the honey production but I haven't tested this, just seems that way from general game play.