Oh what shall I do!~?

[ctsoth]

Well, the package bees I installed one week ago are building comb down off of the inner cover...  The longest comb is probably like 4-5 inches in width, and probably 4-5 inches at the deepest point.

Should I get all the bees of the comb, scrape it off and discard it, and reposition the inner cover so that they can not build off of it again?  

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Should I get the bees off the comb, scrape the comb off the inner cover, and wire/tie the comb into frames so that their effort is not wasted?

Is it possible to just use my bee brush to brush them all off the comb, or will that result it me having a cloud of bees trying to sting the hell out of me?

So, how do I do this with severely angering my bees?  Would it be detrimental to my bees to just toss the comb and have them start enew, or has too much time gone by already for them to start comb building again?

Today I tried to brush the bees off the comb, and after one pass with the bee brush I had a decent amount of angry bees trying to sting me..  I got one sting on the right index finger and two stings on the ankle.  Funny thing is, I didn't notice the two stings on the ankle until about 20 minutes later while I was walking into the house...  The one on the finger only hurt for a few minutes, and then the pain went away with no residual itchyness or anything...

[thegolfpsycho]

Do you have all 10 frames in there?

[Finsky]

Should I get all the bees of the comb, scrape it off and discard it, and reposition the inner cover so that they can not build off of it again?  

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Do that. Fit combs into frame. They are valuble in this situation. Don't give extra room foor bees, just what they occupy.

[BEE C]

I've had this same situation with newly hived packages april 18. I cut the weird comb, which was twisted, and pressed it.  It had some sugar syrup and pollen in it, but i processed it and got enough wax for a small candle.  Oddly enough one hive only has this behavior, the other hive is not doing it.  Putting it in frames is also a good idea if its straight enough.  I was going to do that but it was too twisted, I felt bad though..

[Michael Bush]

>Well, the package bees I installed one week ago are building comb down off of the inner cover... The longest comb is probably like 4-5 inches in width, and probably 4-5 inches at the deepest point.

How?  Between frames?  If the frames are crowded together in the middle and you have as many frames as will fit and you have no extra box on top, they should not have anywhere to build a comb on the inner cover.  You need to make sure they can't.

>Should I get all the bees of the comb, scrape it off and discard it, and reposition the inner cover so that they can not build off of it again?

If it's honey, I would discard it.  If it's brood, I would tie it into an empty frame and put it in the brood nest.

>Should I get the bees off the comb, scrape the comb off the inner cover, and wire/tie the comb into frames so that their effort is not wasted?

Only if there is open brood.  Otherwise it's not that much effort.

>Is it possible to just use my bee brush to brush them all off the comb, or will that result it me having a cloud of bees trying to sting the hell out of me?

I would probably shake them off, but you can brush them with quick VERY sudden flicks.  Do NOT brush them gently.  It just makes them hold on harder and they get rolled and then they get angry.  A flick catches them by surprise and gets them off.

>So, how do I do this with severely angering my bees?

Bees in the air are not necessarily angry.  If you brush them you will have bees in the air.  If you brush them gently you will have ANGRY bees in the air.

> Would it be detrimental to my bees to just toss the comb and have them start enew

Only slightly.

> or has too much time gone by already for them to start comb building again?

They wll be building comb until late summer.

>Today I tried to brush the bees off the comb, and after one pass with the bee brush I had a decent amount of angry bees trying to sting me..

You were trying to be gentle.  Do not make passes.  Make flicks.  Surprise them.