Just got the achievement for creating an industrial apiary(took me like 20hrs) and I've just thought... I have absolutely no reason to use bees for anything now. I get all my resources through farming and sieving but there is really no use for bees at all(please correct me if I'm wrong) so I would like to request a dev or someone to add something worth getting? like a bee for electrotine or iridium shards(1% like diamond shards) then I might feel some accomplishment for completing this achievement. also to anyone who wants to know how long it takes to get 64 iridium from a single mass fabricator: its 68hours(with scrap 100% of the time)
There are some pretty useful bees. Aside from the aforementioned empowering bees, there are nexus bees, pure bees, ghastly bees, void bees, gelid bees, pyro bees, rockin bees, amped bees, phantasmal bees and endearing bees.
From all these you can get the following :-
nexus - Increases thaumcraft node strength up to bright over time.
pure - Makes a thaumcraft node pure.
ghastly - Produces ghast tears.
void - Produces void nuggets, which can craft into void ingots -- a bit easier than setting up thaumcraft to do it.
gelid - Produces cryotheum dust.
pyro - Produces pyrotheum dust.
rocking - Produces petrotheum dust.
amped - Produces aerotheum dust.
phantasmal - Resurrection effect, useful for summoning lots of ender dragons.
endering - Produces enderium nuggets.
And sure there are other ways to get many of the things on the list, but for low set up cost, they just passively produce for a bit of RF.