extra comb on frame

[Paul H]

Bees were installed Sunday (~55 hours ago).  Today I peeked in to see if the queen was out and to fill up the feeder. There was a large gap between frames three and four in which the bees had built extra comb, preventing the frames from being pushed back together.  Should this be removed and, if so, when?

[bassman1977]

Clean it when you can.  I just took my feeders off of my new packages and they were mucked up too.  It looks like they use it as bridge comb.

[JP]

Paul:  "Should this be removed and, if so, when?"


Me: Remove it asap, and push all frames together so they are touching, always do this to respect proper bee space or you will have a mess.


...JP

[bassman1977]

Wow did I read that wrong.  I thought you were talking about burr comb in middle part of a hive top feeder!   

I agree with what JP wrote.

[Michael Bush]

>Should this be removed

Yes.

> and, if so, when?

Now.