As the weather gets cold, it's mostly administration and planning. And in the winters, bees feed themselves on the honey they stored in the lower two boxes. But if the winters are especially long or hard they might run out of food. So Ike and his neighbors will up-end a jar filled with sugar water to supplement their diet. You can actually see their little tongues working at the metal screen placed between them and the jar's punctured lid.
Winters require a certain amount of heavy housekeeping as well.
Ike doesn't have to worry about their bathroom habits. Fastidious creatures, they won't use their own homes for that bit of business. They wait for the sporadic warmer days to venture out and do it the way the bears do. But because they keep their hives at about 92 degrees year round, it's a toasty enticement for field mice to come on in and set for a spell. Bees have a way of coping with this takeover as well, not really needing Ike's intervention at all.