Brood frame with extended "fat" honey area

[twb]

How do you handle frames with "fat" sections of honey.  For ex. extending honey into the space of the next door frame.  Usually this occurs with a drawn brood comb next to a foundationless frame.  The bees extend the top honey above the brood into where the foundationless wax must go.  Can the honey be shaved down with a hive tool without the bees rebuilding it just as it was?  Just curious.

[Michael Bush]

Usually I just leave it.  If it gets too big of a problem, I cut it off to fit and put it back in the hive.

[Eshu]

I will basically second Michael's post.

If I can still get the frames out of the box without having to remove more than one at a time, I leave it.  Sometimes I will scrape the comb down in spring.  Depending on its location in the hive, it may be empty comb in the spring.

If the foundationless frames are placed adjacent to frames with capped honey at the top, this happens a lot less.  That isn't always possible, but it is something to try if you have capped frames in the hive.

[annette]

I leave it and try not to squish the frames when I take them out and put them back in.