Thank you for your feedback! We are really happy that you liked the demo and all your topics will be useful to improve it!
I also already checked and, yes, the absurd amount of bees was a bug, the genius here forgot to disactivate the respawn from those bees.
Also, about the lives: we are planning to make starting lives (or even having infinite lives) an option later, but we could consider increase the number for this version too. Thanks!