Bees despawn. they are enclosed and so have not wandered off. the bees were a mix of bees spawned on tree growth and bees that were bred from those. They did not disappear when logging off/on, so I think it was due to distance of >128 blocks from player. Bees are not in spawn chunks.

The bees were a mix of bees spawned on tree growth and bees that were bred from those. They did not disappear when logging off/on, so I think it was due to distance of >128 blocks from player.

In Minecraft, Bees are designed to die a minute after they lose their stinger. If agitated, a Bee can sting the attacker, losing its stinger in the process. Bees can easily be provoked which leads to them dying ‘unexpectedly’.

Not the bees! Minecraft. Credit: Mojang/Microsoft The next Minecraft update aims to fix those pesky bees and stop them from accidentally despawning. As noted by PCGamesN, the Mojang bug tracker was noting that bees would sometimes despawn when the world was reloaded.

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