What actually happened was...:
product honey with no bees and honey level
Steps to Reproduce:
use dispenser facing hive or nest then activate with redstone block /comparator(subtraction mode/repeater
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maybe that is honey hive/nest bug
**also bees can feed using wither rose with no damage(but can be damaged by placed wither rose
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We're actually already tracking this issue in MC-159359, so I resolved and linked this ticket as a duplicate.
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