A Quick Buzzer and Buzzer Honey Guide

     Common Buzzer - local Buzzers are a friendly sort, and thrive almost anywhere where they can find flowers and plants. They may take a liking to a Neopet-built hive, but they also make their own in the trees. Buzzer honey is sweet and thick, and good for a sore throat! Pink and Purple Buzzers are variants of the local friendly Buzzer, and live quite happily alongside each other, and their honey tastes different. They have a notable preference for their respective colours in flowers. Pink Buzzer Honey is light pink, and has a little cotton candy-like flavor, and Purple Buzzer honey is lavender in colour, and tastes similarly lavender-y.

     Grey Buzzer - Grey Buzzers are quite the sad little creatures by nature, and like low-to-the-ground and dark places to live in. Their best honey season is during the fall, and their honey tends to be thicks and grey-ish in colour but tastes quite lovely despite the unappetising appearance. It's also an excellent mood-booster! The Grey Buzzer buzz is a very distinctly low, moody one.

     Maraquan Buzzer - Maraquan buzzers are an aquatic species of Buzzer, and are mostly found in and around Maraqua, though a good beekeeper can keep them in a heated saltwater pond elsewhere too. Their prime season is in the Summer, and their honey is thick, opaque, and has a salty caramel taste to it.

     Fire Buzzer - When keeping these Buzzers, their hives need to be built to withstand a lot of heat, because Fire Buzzes normally live in places of perpetual heat, like volcanoes, foundries, etc. They like nesting near fires, and typically have their own little fires inside their hives too, which is very good for keeping intruders away. Their favourite plants are usually spicy - chilis and Schezuan buds and so on, and they use those to make their reddish, spicy honey. Fire Buzzers' buzzing sounds quite like the roar and hum of flames.

     Clay Buzzer - Clay Buzzers make their hives underground in labyrinthine clay mounds, which are quite challenging to harvest, but the honey is well worth it - it's quite like moldable clay, sweet, earthy, and excellent for skin care as masks, and so on. Clay Buzzers like decorating their mounds, and their buzzing is a dry-like sound.

     Spotted Buzzer - Spotted Buzzers are a regional variant of the Common Buzzer. They camouflage better in forested environments and live apart from their stripy relatives. Their honey has beautiful spots of opaque honey floating in liquid honey, and it tastes a little earthier than normal Buzzer honey.

     Snow Buzzer - these little fellows are only active during the Winter, and otherwise should be kept in a cold place for them to hibernate over the warmer seasons. They make their hives in mounds of snow and ice, and burrow under the snow to feed on frostberries and winter roots. Their honey is very solid and crystallises into lumps which can be eaten as is, and melts into an almost watery consistency when in room temperature. It has a minty fresh taste.

     Tyrannian Buzzer - Tyrannian Buzzers tend to build their nests in little rocky caves or nooks, or under tree roots, and their buzzing is a very distinct roaring sound. This type of Buzzer is the oldest known Buzzer species, and has a distinctively fuzzy appearance - they are so fluffy! Their honey is thick, cloudy, and has a fantastic smoky flavour that goes well with meats.

     Christmas Buzzer - These Buzzers appear along the Snow Buzzers during Christmas-time, and few really know where they come from. Do they just pop up from the ground? In any case, they are real cuties, kinda jingle when they fly around, and their honey has a lovely sweet, spiced taste, like it's been infused with cinnamon and cloves. A rare treat, but very worth it!

     Robot Buzzer - Robot Buzzers like to make their hives inside old clocks or various abandoned mechanical things, and harvest oil and grease from all old junk. They don't make edible honey, but they DO make thick, oily honey that is quite a nice, purified lubricant for delicate robot parts and clockwork things. You will recognise these buddies by their whirring buzz.

     Halloween Buzzer - these little fellows bite rather than sting, and have a taste for blood, but thankfully prefer to bite pests rather than guests at apiaries. They are flying about mostly around autumn, and are nocturnal, unlike most other Buzzers. They have a peculiar squawky sound to their flight, sorta like bats? And their honey is a rusty colour. It tastes more chocolatey than Common Buzzer honey. Thank goodness, right? Could have been blood-flavoured!

     Ghost Buzzer - This is what Buzzers become sometimes once they're done with life. We don't rightly know why it sometimes happens, and sometimes doesn't. Their nests are hard to find, and you can only see them in some lights, or if you know where to look. They make honey, too, from wilted flowers. It's sort of not there, but there anyway, wispy, tastes like memories of sweet things eaten with loved ones long gone. Not your everyday treat.

     Pirate Buzzer - Pirate Buzzers can be a little bit... scoundrel-like. They like to show up wherever neopoints are exchanged for goods, and make a nest in the nearest ship's mast or a tree from which they attempt raids to the nearby shops and markets. They can be thwarted with decoy riches and treasures, but eventually wise up, so it's usually recommended to re-home them elsewhere if they're being a bother. Their honey is hard to harvest because they guard it jealously, but it glitters with tiny gold flakes, so it's wonderful as a drizzle on top of other things, in glazes and marinades, and as a sweetener in fancy drinks! The taste depends on the Buzzers in the particular hive, because they tend to be a mix of several kinds of Buzzers who have decided to become pirates.

     Island Buzzer - Island Buzzers live in warm climates with ample water around. They can be kept in warm greenhouses in other climates too, and can be quite happy as long as they have access to their preferred tropical flowers. They have a lovely musical buzz, like decorating their hives with surrounding plants, and their honey has a wonderful fruity taste to it! It is excellent on ice cream!

     Darigan Buzzer - Darigan Buzzers are (or were) servants of Lord Darigan, created by his corruption during the Battle of Meridell. After Lord Darigan switched sides and became good, so did his creatures, and these Buzzers have decided to stick around in Meridell and make it a home. They are a welcome addition to any apiary because they are excellent at protecting the apiary from dangers! Their honey is purple-black and not actually safely edible, but it can be used as a poison.

     Plushie Buzzer - These little fellows like nesting in old plushies or scarecrows, so be careful picking up discarded toys! These are a favorite of children, and cannot sting unless they've found a sewing needle and attached it to themselves as a stinger. They make a candy-sweet colourful honey, and make "honeycomb" out of fabric and yarn scraps they find! This can be used as coasters or little towels.

     Mutant Buzzer - Mutants come about from exposure to Transmogrification, but also as a result of random mutations in other hives. Mutant Buzzers should be carefully removed from their original hives and housed with other Mutants, because their honey can lessen the quality of the hive's honey. Not to say that they make bad honey! No no! But sometimes the honey they produce can be poisonous or cause diseases or have other unintended effects, so it's just safer to keep them apart, and only ingest their honey at your own risk!

     For more information on Buzzers, which plants you can keep in your garden to make your local Buzzers happy, or even want advice about starting Buzzer-keeping yourself, you can turn to Chadonis, or your local friendly apiary!