The suspected vulnerability to water is a particular problem when you consider the bees usefulness as pollinators and the necessity of having water on farms. Seems like freshly generated hives have bees but they disappear after a short time and never come back. Would be grateful for any wisdom on this problem. Is there a problem with Minecraft bees? I havent been using organophosphates I promise. Looks like a dysfunctional mechanic is killing them off. I googled for disappearing bees and found a lot of threads discussing this problem in relation to bee farms.

Then the lone bee disappeared and so now I have none and this means two bee nests with zero bees. I built a small base and growing plot near it and harvested honeycombs and honey successfully for several days as there were plenty of flowers nearby. There was one bee on the whole island so it must have been.

Looked for nests and found two, one was empty and the other one had one bee in it so could not breed, probably the same bee I freed.

I freed a bee caught in a cobweb (very carefully). Spawned in an archipelago and eventually found a sunflower plains island with an abandoned village on it with lots of cobwebs. I have not played for a while so decided to try 1.15.1 Java survival for bee fun.