Bee-Having

Bee-Having is the twentieth level in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. It is similar to Diggin' It, featuring the same enemies, but this time, the bees attack Crash in swarms! As it is almost impossible to take out an entire swarm with one attack, Crash will have to take advantage of his ability to spin into the magenta patches of soil throughout the level.

Crash can find the Purple Gem here, in one of the more unusual secrets in the series. Players will encounter a staircase fashioned from Nitro Crates, but the particularly observant among them will notice that they aren't constantly hopping, like normal Nitros - this is because they are, in fact, fakes, and jumping on them will warp the player to a secret route, and not explosionland as they'd usually expect. The secret path is a frustrating construction, a la Un-Bearable, of hunter Lab Assistants and (real) Nitro Crates galore, greatly simplified by the fact that all these obstacles are completely irrelevant because the Gem is located almost right at the start of the route. The crate Clear Gem, meanwhile, is a fairly straightforward affair, unlike Diggin' It, which is awful.

Trivia

 * This level's title seems to be an elaborate pun combining the words "behave", "beehive", and "behooving".
 * Alternately, it could be a reference to Austin Powers, whose film series debuted six months before Crash 2. The character, portrayed by Michael Myers, had a number of dumb catchphrases, and among them was "Oh, bee-have!", an obvious allusion to the booming honey industry in the 1960s, the chronological time era from which the character came, in the movie's strict continuity.
 * It is never explained in-game why the Nitro Crate staircase doesn't explode when Crash activates the Nitro Switch Crate at the end of this level. According to most fans, this makes absolutely no sense. However, it's most likely that because the Nitro staircase is a dud, so both the explosive chemicals in the crate and the switch detonation doesn't activate.