You can get both too if your willing to just face getting stung. I just figure my sim is going to get stung anyway. Make sure your bees don't need mite treatment they can't be calmed down if they have mites. Sometimes I let them calm down on their own and sometimes I just go in and handle them a bunch to calm them down. You just get an uncomfortable moodlet but you can take a bath or something to get rid of it. Lol I'm allergic in real it would take a lot more than a bath for me.
Anyway I've got the machine and plenty of wax. My sim doesn't leave the lot enough to dumpster dive so I guess I'll be buying the dyes.