drone comb 90* to normal orientation

[Caribou]

I did a hive inspection yesterday.  They had built a bridge between two frames and filled it with drone comb.  It was capped and really looked strange.  It was two cells back to back like a normal frame but at 90* to the foundation and from the middle to the bottom of the medium foundation. I dug it out and as they were 80% full I added a super. 

About this time it started raining so I closed up and did not go any deeper.

[yes2matt]

I did a hive inspection yesterday.  They had built a bridge between two frames and filled it with drone comb.  It was capped and really looked strange.  It was two cells back to back like a normal frame but at 90* to the foundation and from the middle to the bottom of the medium foundation. I dug it out and as they were 80% full I added a super. 

About this time it started raining so I closed up and did not go any deeper.

I dunno, bees are silly sometimes. Look what they did when I gave them plastic drone comb:   

Is that similar to what you saw?

[Caribou]

That is really interesting but not what I saw.  Imagine taking a piece of comb honey with caps on each side.  Then sticking it to two frames, or more accurately two foundations.  The caps were accessible on each side in the bee space.  They had removed the wax in the area so they could attach this directly to the plastic foundation. If you consider each frame a wall then they built another wall between the two existing walls  and gave themselves extra length by removing the current cells in that area.  I wish I had a picture but it did not come out. 

I think the ladies were sitting around one evening having a glass of wine and one of them said, "Look we know he'll be back in a week and he doesn't know squat.  I've got an idea, do you want to mess with his head?"  Then they built this wall 90* from every other one.

[GSF]

I've had the same problem at times. It's like they said the heck with it lets build between the frames. Another nasty little trick is building bridges off of the foundation and then drawing out comb. Great queen hiding caves. You may consider cutting it out, rubber banding it to a frame and sticking it back in there.

[Caribou]

Thanks GSF,  It was it was capped drone comb and I did cut it out.