Ok, so one of my self-given quests in the game is to become a master of alchemy. Not just getting to 100 skill in alchemy or getting perks, but of finding and mastering all the ingredients. Now I've found these ingredients: bees, honeycombs and beehive husks in alchemy shops and in random loot. I also found one beehive randomly in the wild, in The Rift hold, that had all three ingredients in it.

Every other ingredient I have found plenty of, but I just can't seem to find more beehives. Anyone know of locations where I can find beehives?

Every beehive I have come across has been near a bearcave, and usually they are lots of them together.

Try the area around Honeystrand Cave, south of Ivarstead

The barrels in Riften outside sometime spawn with 3x honeycomb in them. I've never seen a harvestable beehive though, if you find a good spot it would be awesome if you could post it here.

Also, the Thieves Guild questline had me light 3 of 6 beehives on fire at the Goldenglow Estate.

West of Whiterun, past the small mountain in the plains, there is an area with a few dead trees where I found a beehive. Other than that /shrug

Wrong kind of beehive. You can only collect ingredients from natural beehives, not artificial ones.

Well that stinks. I didn't even notice, I did that mission in the dark of night at a low-level, so I was just trying to get out of there as fast as possible.

West of Riften close to the mountain is a bear cave, and it has one before you go in.


Edit: I think it's near Ivarstead, also the bandit camp near Helgen has one.