Text - But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed she dies If there's a spike in the weather and the hive hasn't prepared new queen brood, that's it! The colony is dead. Because there wasn't enough space for eggs and honey in the hive.