Commercial honey bee colonies have experienced rapid declines in the past two decades due to the synergistic effects of multiple stressors, such as pesticides. Our previous work has found a common agricultural pesticide, spirodiclofen, capable of accelerating the depletion of abdominal lipid and altering the foraging behavior of bees in that they collect less, yet more lipid-rich, pollen. One potential solution towards mitigating the deleterious effects of these stressors is improving dietary supplementation for commercial hives. We hypothesize that increasing the lipid component of these diets may increase stress resilience to pesticides by helping bees maintain their internal nutritional stores. In this study, we increased the lipid component of supplemental pollen patty (2:1 sugar to corbicular pollen ratio) and observed its effect on internal nutritional stores in caged bees. We also applied our altered diets to single-cohort colonies to observe changes in hive demography and collective foraging habits. Our results demonstrate an increased need for improving commercial diets to facilitate the growth and development of honey bee hives experiencing lipid-depleting stressors.