Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

I've put four on the same floor tile on a pole. They seem to be fine right next to each other. Maybe it's a percentage exposure thing, the opposite of what workbenches have.

The game can be weird at times with stuff like cover as well.
Something like angle to block like raycasting detection? Like framing a window will make it inside instead of exposed next to it... something like that anyway.

So it makes sense if they had a very high vertical next to them causing the issue.

I guess the best way to think of cover over a beehive is like an inverted cone?