In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), long lifetime requirement of different applications and limited energy storage capability of sensor nodes has led us to find out new horizons for reducing power consumption upon nodes. In Wireless sensor networks are composed to a large number of nodes, which have capability to sensing, transmitting and receiving in formation by using battery. This sensor nodes work together to deliver information gathered from terrain to a sink. The nodes existing in terrain one or more hop distance from the sink. A sensing packet from distanced nodes to reach the sink consumes more power, proportion to number of forwarder nodes. More power consumption drain out battery power early and leads disruption information passing from nodes to sink. Energy efficient wireless sensor network is created with the clustering technique for reliable transmission. For clustering approach, the artificial bee colony algorithm is proposed. This algorithm uses the inspiration of honey bees. The performance analysis of the proposed system show efficient result in the throughput, energy and packet delivery ratio.