Wandering Bees

[Josiah Gibbonson]

Sometimes a few bees will leave their hive to wander around and search for flowers. (Weather permitting)

That way you could actually follow bees back to their hive! 

[DinoHazard]

Ooh this would be nice. I'm not sure how costly in processing it would be though to have to keep track of precise bee movements on top of everything else. Maybe just wandering ambient bees in the general area of beehives, sort of like the grasshoppers we have now? It would still serve as an indicator, but it's very easy to lose track of a single bee, after all.

[Dilan Rona]

better idea, have the wandering bees create new bee nests every couple hundred blocks instead. Say every few in game months. during the late spring/early autumm.

[Steel General]

Since the hives are already identifying flowers in their range and generating particles, it shouldn't be too much overhead for them to also generate some particles among the relevant flowers.

When I first started playing, I was expecting new hives to appear every Spring (raccoons will prevent some overpopulation, but maybe not enough - let bears eat hives too ).  I think that would be a swell mechanic to add.