Wireless communication is one of the fastest growing technologies all over the world. Especially, Adhoc Network is applied wide spread across the world in many different applications, which includes all major engineering systems, vehicular network etc...The optimal routing is an issue in the adhoc network and many researchers focused their attention and developed various methodologies which are feasible for certain situations. This paper proposes a honey bee mating algorithm for adhoc routing, which is a swarm intelligence technique, and this technique is already applied for data clustering; scheduling and resource allocation; optimization problems. The various benchmark proposed by the researcher for the artificial honey bee shows better result than the existing techniques. This paper has restructured the artificial bee colony algorithm from the initialization phase to the implementation phase, and shows better result than the existing methodology. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.