(Misread question, can't change vote, sigh)
Bees are not a problem in all honesty. In fact, I think it's probably one of the more uniquely designed enemies in the game. No other enemy teaches you the shield mechanic as well as the bees. I had a ton of trouble when I was starting out, but now I perfect guard them at at 50% rate with a normal guard taking the other 50%. They aren't a threat what-so-ever.
The only thing I would love to change about them is to make more skills interact with them like bronze charge cloud does. For example, I always think that the heroic slam, where you do a jump attack, should hit the bees in the air, but it doesn't...
Anyways, the bees are fine. Boars, wisps, halloweeds, lantern jacks, bees... they are all designed to teach you certain skills. Once you master it, they became really easy to deal with.