Bee

Bees are neutral animals that will sting the player, in a swarm, if provoked and inflict poison.

Natural generation
Bees spawn in groups around their homes - bee nests - found in plains, sunflower plains and flower forest biomes. They often are found hanging from trees.

Behavior
Bees fly around their nests, being attracted by flowers. After circling a flower for a while a bee can collect pollen, which changes the texture of a bee to include pollen spots on its back. Bees with pollen also have pollen particles coming off them.

Once bees have collected pollen they can pollinate crops, causing them to advance one growth stage.

When a bee with pollen returns to its bee nest or bee hive this increases the nectar level of the nest or hive by one.

Bees follow players holding flowers, but stops following if the player stops holding the flower.

Bees will attack and swarm the player as a group when angered. Angered bees texture changes and causes the bees to have red eyes. All bees nearby are angered when one individual is attacked, but only the bees from a specific nest or hive are angered when that nest or hive is destroyed. While harvesting from a nest will cause the bees to leave and swarm the player, this is not the case for bee hives, in which case the bees stay neutral.

After attacking and poisoning the player bees lose their stinger and die within 20 seconds, bees can therefore only attack once.

Bees do not attack other mobs when damaged, for example due to a skeleton shooting them.

Bees, despite being arthropods in real life, are not considered arthropods in Minecraft and do not take increased damage against the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.

Breeding
If bees are given a flower, they enter love mode and pair off to create baby bees, granting the player a small amount of experience. The parent bees have a cooldown of 5 minutes before they can breed again. All babies obtained by breeding take 20 minutes to grow up. The growth of baby bees can be slowly accelerated using flowers; each use takes 10% off of the remaining time to grow up.

Spawning
Bees spawn in groups around their homes - hives and nests - found in plains, sunflower plains and flower forest biomes.

Behavior
Bees behavior are complex; when attacked, all bees from the same hive try to attack the original attacker, the same happens when their hive/nest is destroyed.

Bees, despite being arthropods in real life, are not considered arthropods in Minecraft and do not take increased damage against the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.

Entity data
Bees have entity data associated with them that contains various properties of the mob.

Trivia

 * Bees are the first flying insects and flying neutral mobs introduced to Minecraft.

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