Christian Crusader

Solution:

In the current version of 1.18.5 (Stable) requirements to tame bees while temperatures are low or snow is around, are as follows: The outside temperature must be above -5*C, the date should be March 5th (when I saw the "ready to swarm" message) or when snow melt is visible (encase people are using different than 9 standard days per month), and the skep has to be within three blocks of the wild hive and surrounded by flowers (the more the better but there is a cap of 100?).

Answers to my questions at the start of the thread:
- No the bees do not have to be loaded in visually for the skep to be inhabited.
- There is no difference between using flowers as of current version, only in model.
- Yes, bees will not swarm during cold seasons only during Spring, Summer, and Early Fall. Rain does not effect bees swarming skeps.
- No they love me.

Possible solution to low temperature environments (Not tested):

- Moving towards the equator of the world to get warmer temperatures.

- Building a small greenhouse (search it up in the wiki) around the wild beehive and doing said requirements.