I literally wondered on here hoping to find news about a fork of magic bees to be pleasantly surprised to find you have done everything already. You rock sir.Well, first ever minecraft thingy I've ever done, but... I've updated MagicBees to 1.7.10 now.
Everything seems to work, but I can't do any real testing without Thaumcraft.
https://bitbucket.org/Arkandos/magic-bees/downloads
Edit: It's on bitbucket because I can't find a way to fork the project from GitHub