Whenever I use shears or a honey bottle on one of my hives and there's bee's inside they (with a campfire under) they fly really far away and sometimes don't come back http://prntscr.com/p4ilej (this is about 80/100 blocks from the hive
MC-160850
Bees Flying far away from the Hive/Nest after being Harvested for Honey
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Ian Stepnowski
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I've encountered this problem too. It also seems to happen if I hold a honey bottle around the bees, whether or not I just filled it. Sometimes (but only about 10% of the time) it seems to happen when I stop holding a flower and the bees stop following me.
This is a big problem when your hive is near the ocean. The bees fly out to sea and drown (which is a different issue: MC-159502, but the two are especially bad together).