Good day all!

I'm looking for any information on carpenter bees overwintering.

A little background. I found Rosy on one of my shopping bags on Aug 24th of this year.
She was looking pretty rough and it looked like she had no wings.
I got her some sugar water and started googling.   Unfortunately,  because they burrow into wood to live, most of the information is how to get rid of them.

I grabbed a container, some flowers, a couple empty paper towel rolls and put her in there.  I also crafted an overnight enclosure for her, making sure she was safe from my cats while we slept.

We weren't sure how long she was going to survive.  

My husband and I would pick her flowers every other day when our garden was in bloom.  Her favourites are roses and broccolini blooms. 
As the weeks passed and she was still doing so well,  my husband made 2 different small logs with predrilled holes for her.
She spent quite a lot of time making the one to her liking, and it's now her home.

Once the season changed and the garden was coming to an end, we started buying her a bouquet of flowers every few days because she was just not happy with the only flowers we had left,  chrysanthemums.  I noticed that she was starting to slow down and it started getting a little pricey for us.

I looked online to see what people would supplement their bees diets with in the off-season.  There were different liquids and pucks but I decided on a bag of bee pollen that is locally sourced.   
Every day I would crush up about 10 pollen pellets and either sprinkle the powder on the mums we had in her enclosure,  or she would eat it off a cotton swab.

In the beginning, because of my sensory issues, I wouldn't let her walk on my skin, but over the months, we have really grown a bond.

Onto the information I need help with.
She obviously does not have a normal carpenter bee life.  She was unable to collect enough resources to survive her overwintering.   If she doesn't have a full overwinter situation will she die?

Before the furnace turned on she was sleeping most days, but twice a day I would try to feed her in her log.  She would take the sugar water every day and only wanted pollen every other day.
Since it's been on, she is perched on her log every morning waiting.  I take her out and feed her, and she runs around on me for 30 to 45 minutes before she falls asleep and I put her back in her house.
She isn't sleeping for as long, she is pretty active most of the day and she's eating 2-3 times a day.  I do have sugar water and pollen with her, but she prefers to be fed. lol

I want to give her the best life,  if anyone has any information on overwintering habits and proper diet for carpenter bees it would be greatly appreciated. 

I would also like to apologize ahead of time if it takes time for me to respond.
I've been trying to force myself into making this post for the last month.

Thank you!


Rosy the carpenter bee