This is a really late necro, but for anyone coming to this later (Like I did from a quick google search), this is because you need them to be *harvestable* skeps, not *populated* skeps. Any populated skep will drop as a skep, and eject all the bees. Harvestable skeps will break and give you cattails/honeycomb.
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