If you stand and watch bees exiting their hives, they will occasionally get stuck partially in the hive upon exiting and then take suffocation damage until they die, or are pushed by another bee or a player. Notably, I have only noticed this occurring on hives where there is a block in front of the hive and and down one block. This occurs with a full block or a trapdoor if you are using trap doors around a campfire underneath the hive to prevent bees from killing themselves on the fire. The presence of another block in this location seems to interfere with bees exiting their hive and results in them exiting partly inside the hive block itself causing suffocation damage to occur. I have attached a screenshot of a bee dying in this manner. The second screenshot is of an automated honey farm in which bees will have the same bug. Its not as much an issue in the farm because the bees are usually nudged by others quickly enough.
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Does MC-252831 describe your issue?
Is this still an issue for in the latest snapshot or release of the game? Now that similar problems regarding the AI of bees have been recently fixed such as MC-252831, the issue you're experiencing may no longer be present here. Please check and get back to us; thanks in advance!
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Can confirm, has been happening to my bees since 1.19. I've also found they get stuck on blocks and just sit on the floor and sometimes they can't pathfind to flowers properly and will constantly fly into a block.