I haven't been through their place in probably 13 years. My neighbor worked there for a few years when I was in high school. Back then they were doing more burms than balls. Nice place that's for sure. It's funny after I posted earlier I was watching Python Hunters and Mark was on the show with them hunting for pythons.
The only problem with the bee male to normals is you are going to produce a lot of pastels, spiders, and normals along with some bees. The market for spiders and pastels has really slowed down in the last few years. If you have a bee female and breed her with another co dom male you have no normals and a chance for several combos. You could get a get a male pastel ghost and bring in a recessive gene. Breeding him to a bee you get pastel het ghost, spider het ghost, bee het ghost, and killer bee het ghost. Breeding that male to the lesser you get pastel het ghost, lesser het ghost, and pastel lesser het ghost.
I know you said you were getting away from horses to give the checkbook a break but be warned that these guys can get addictive. Once hooked they can wreak havoc on a checkbook.