How to Breed Bees in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to breed bees with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, you can breed bees and make cute baby bees. Let's explore how to breed bees.

Required Materials to Breed Bees

In Minecraft, these are the materials you can use to breed bees:

2 Dandelions

2 Poppies

2 Blue Orchid

2 Allium

2 Azure Bluet

2 Red Tulips

2 Orange Tulips

2 White Tulips

2 Pink Tulips

2 Oxeye Daisies

2 Sunflowers

2 Lilacs

2 Rose Bushes

2 Peonies

2 Cornflowers

2 Lily of the Valley

2 Wither Roses

2 Bees

Steps to Breed Bees

1. Find Two Bees

First, you will need to find two bees to breed. Bees are usually found in the Plains, Flower Forest, Birch Forest, Sunflower Plains and Meadow biomes.

If you are having trouble finding bees, you can summon a bee using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

2. Use the Flowers

When breeding bees, you can use any flower such as: dandelion, poppy, blue orchid, allium, azure bluet, red tulip, orange tulip, white tulip, pink tulip, oxeye daisy, sunflower, lilac, rose bush, peony, cornflower, lily of the valley or wither rose.

In this example, we will breed the bees using poppies. With the poppies selected in your hot bar, you will need to feed a flower to each of the bees, one at a time.

The game control to use/feed the flowers to the bees depends on the version of Minecraft:

• For Java Edition (PC/Mac), right click on the bee one at a time.
• For Pocket Edition (PE), you tap on the bee one at a time.
• For Xbox One, press the LT button on the Xbox controller.
• For PS4, press the L2 button on the PS controller.
• For Nintendo Switch, press the ZL button on the controller.
• For Windows 10 Edition, right click on the bee one at a time.
• For Education Edition, right click on the bee one at a time.

As you feed the poppies to the bees, you will see red hearts appear over their heads. Each of these bees is entering love mode.

Once you have fed both bees, they will turn to each other and red hearts will continue to appear over their heads.

After a moment, the red hearts will disappear and a cute baby bee will appear.

Now you will have two adult bees and one baby bee.

Congratulations, you just learned how to breed bees in Minecraft!

Things to Do with Bees

Here are some activities that you can do with bees in Minecraft:

How to Fertilize Crops with Bees

Videos

Watch this video as we show you everything about bees in the new Buzzy Bees Update (Java Edition 1.15)!

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