Melittidae

Melittidae is a Tier 5 tank that upgrades from Beehive and Swarmdrive at level 60.

Design
looks identical to Beehive, but it has Swarmdrive's square decoration in middle of its body.

Technical
Only two of its barrels, the center pair, fire turreted bees. The other 4 shoot normal bees, exactly as Beehive. Their auto turrets are weak and can`t even kill a Square. The bees themselves have the same stats as regular Beehive's bee drones.

As the

 * Avoid bullet spammers. They will easily penetrate drones.
 * Try to keep distance from AIs. They won`t damage you if you are far enough.
 * Bee drones form the cloud of drones, which is not so dense, so you can`t block bullets properly. Try to dodge the bullets.
 * Trapper branch tanks are venerable, so you can kill most of them easily.
 * Avoid bosses, can`t kill most of them.

Against the

 * As Bee drone auto turret bullets are weak, you can ignore them. As bullet spammer, just shoot at the, as dodging bullets from bullet spammers are hard to dodge.
 * Get Railgun branch tank, except Particle Accelerator. It`s the only tank in this branch that have default FOV. Just shoot at the, dodging fast bullets is hard.
 * Fast Lancer branch tanks can penetrate bee drone cloud and kill the.

History
The was added in 12 January 2018.

12/03/2018 (3): Melittidae's reload was heavily nerfed

12/03/2018 (4): Melittidae was removed

01/22/2019: Melittidae was readded

04/01/2019: Melittidae's swarm reload was nerfed

04/03/2019: Melittidae's swarm drones had their speed and reload nerfed slightly

Trivia

 * is the 1st tank that was both added and deleted within the same day. 3 days later, it was readded.
 * In the day it got added, this tank got 2 nerfs.
 * In total, this tank has gotten 3 nerfs!