Sugarbag bees are domesticated insects that have been reared in Oceanyka for thousands of years, fostering an economically and culturally important industry of beekeeping. They are stingless invertebrates up to 8cm in length that live in large hives, each with a queen, workers and drones. Locals use this species to produce honey and beeswax, which are useful as food, medicine and for other purposes. Furthermore, the importance of sugarbag bees as potent pollinators had been suspected for centuries before European colonisation, so apiculture has traditionally been inseparably linked to conventional agricultural estates.