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However, the overwintering process, particularly the mitochondrial mechanisms sustaining it, remains poorly understood. Here we investigated honey bee energetic metabolism across four seasons by measuring mitochondrial oxygen consumption, ATP production, site\u2010specific reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, markers of oxidative stress and supercomplex (SC) assembly in thorax\u2010isolated mitochondria. Complex I (CI)\u2010linked respiration decreased by half in winter compared to summer, yet ATP production remained stable, indicating tighter energetic efficiency. This came at a cost, as winter bees exhibited higher ROS emission across multiple sites, which was somehow buffered as no clear evidence of oxidative damage to proteins was detected. Strikingly spring bees displayed elevated CI respiration together with greater ROS generation and protein carbonyl accumulation, identifying this stage as a critical window of oxidative vulnerability. Further in\u2010gel activity revealed marked remodelling of mitochondrial complexes and SC. CI assembled into multiple SC, but their activity remained largely stable across seasons and did not reflect respiration shifts. By contrast CII and mG3PDH in\u2010gel activities increased in winter, consistent with enhanced succinate and G3P oxidation, whereas CIV\u2010containing SCs were also more abundant. Finally CV dimers and oligomers were only detected in fall and winter, structural features associated with higher oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) efficiency. 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