The bug
Bees will take damage in water every 0.5 seconds, regardless of the value of the Air:
tag. This can be reproduced by spawning a bee under water with a spawn egg, or with the following command:
summon bee ~ ~ ~ {Air:300s}
Note that the bee won't take suffocation damage if spawned with NoAI:1b, but may drown as usual.
Original description
Upon contact with water sometimes a bee takes damage. This is best reproduced if you create a superflat water world and summon a bunch of bees above water and watch as they move around.
Could be related to MC-167147 I found both at the same time.
Linked issues
is duplicated by 2
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Bees don't like water 🙂 this is intentional
I updated the description based on the behaviors I'm getting (they suffocate in water even with spawned with sufficient air). This could be intentional since they avoid water, but I don't remember seeing it described in the minecraft.net update posts.