If two bees are trying to enter a bee hive/nest already ocupied by two other bees, one of them will enter, preventing the second one from doing so. The bee that is left outside will look for another bee hive to ocupy, but sometimes, even when there are other hives nearby, it will fail to do so. In this case the bee will proceed to leave the area moving in the north-west direction (This might not be totaly acurate, but it was the direction they went in all my tests).
This may be the reason other players have reported their bees leaving/disapearing like in MC-166825 .
The video below show this bug in action. There are two bee nests one empty, and the other one with two bees. Once another two bees are summoned, they try to enter the closest nest. One enters and the second one instead of going to the other nest, wanders off to nowere.
In the second the video the bee decides to polinate a flower instead of entering the nest (despite it beeing night) and after he is done he does not enter the nest (maybe flew too far away).
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Weird- I'm seeing bees generated in the wild just forgetting where they live still. It's not uncommon to come across a pollen-covered bee just going about a life journey day & night.
I want to further add that in my instance, blocking off their source of pollination and roaming partially (only one sided very tall dirt wall), even while still keeping some flowers nearby, caused nearly all of my bees to dislocate themselves
I had more than enough hives for even 120 bees but at that moment the dirt wall invalidated all the hives it seemed
Tested in 1.16.5 and this seemed to happen to my entire farm of about 50 bees