This essentially clones MC-166980. per comment
The bug
Bees have a tendency to pathfind towards the north-west. So far, I have tested this only for bees spawned using /summon: YouTube video
This issue seems to have persisted, according to this comment for 1.16.1, information from MC-206396 in 1.16.4 (although the game is modified), and having tested it myself. I cannot say if it is less or more biased than it was before 20w12a/20w22a.
An easy way to reproduce this would be to spawn them in at 0,0 and watch where they go after a few minutes, but one can also perform a /kill command with xyz/dxdydz values to count the bees in each quadrant. This yielded ~6 times as many bees in the northwest quadrant than each other quadrant individually, after ~5 minutes of waiting.
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Confirming. Makes bees borderline unusable without closing them in, and even if they are closed in they'll often seem to forget their home and stare northwest.
I can confirm this is an issue in 1.16.4. I bred many bees with plenty of bee hives in an area only to have them disappear. I later discovered them in the middle of an ocean to the northwest hundreds of blocks away.
1.16.5- I'm still seeing bees fly away forever. It's isn't uncommon to cross them a biome away (I only seem to notice lone bees in plains) in seemingly any direction. The one in the screenshot I posted travelled southwest from the forest in the background.
Yes, can confirm this is still happening in 1.19.1. My girlfriend made a large hive structure with an east facing entrance, and a plethora of flowers outside the entrance. A large majority of the bees end up flying out of the entrance of the structure then heading north-west and getting lost, never to return to the hive.
Edit: here is a video showing what I described. Server is 1.19.1 vanilla.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJaDz9xywy0
Still happening in 1.20.2. My world is very old, so no bees have naturally generated within about 3km of spawn. My hives near spawn slowly empty over time, and I regularly find pollen-laden bees about 500 blocks away to the northwest
Affects 1.21.1. I have an old world. I have seen bees wandering northwest several times over a few years. Bees typically wander off northwest until they end up in lazy chunks where they can be found later. The only way I can keep bees is in an enclosed space or stored in hives in a chest. It is not possible to populate spawn chunks in old worlds with unenclosed bees without them wandering off.
I think MC-181827 is a better fit, MC-166980 was a bigger issue that caused bees to wander thousands of blocks away without returning to their home hive.