Ok. I give up. I can't figure out how to get honey bees! I need to find some for my tavern to get promoted from Baron(ess) and the bees I have been able to find are already taken by other cities, and you cant take over their territory b/c they have a trading contract w/ you. Where can I find the bees?

if you build a bee keeep hut, it has a option like the sheep/cow/grain gatherers that lets you build the required resorce, in this case it lets you build the bee hives.

Oh dont forget that your bee hives will be dormant in winter.

I had the same problem - I scoured the map for bees lol.