CROSSED COMB - an email question which needs help ASAP

[beemaster]

I'm helping my son with his 4H beekeeping project and we are stumped as to the term "crossed comb".  This is my 2nd year as a beekeeper and have looked through all my books and haven't came across the definition.  Please help as we only have a few days left.  Thanks
Wonderful site.

please help with this is you can - there is a dead line

JC

[newbee101]

I believe it is when they cross over the comb from one frame to another.
I have had it happen to me, when I didnt push all the frames back together tight.

[Jerrymac]

Well I googled "crossed comb" and found a few things. The first couple of things seem to concern TBHs. What I get is the bees build the comb across the gap, connecting two combs together. I have seen this done in my hives as I only use starter strips, empty frames, or sometimes it includes the comb I have cut out and tied into a frame or two.

So anyway I guess it is comb crossing two frames.

[Michael Bush]

Basiclly any time the comb does not stay in one frame but spans to another.  Sometimes just running crooked enough, sometimes "fins" out from the surface and sometimes an comb out from the surface.  I would call any of those cross combs.  As opposed to burr which is just a very thin amount of comb on the top or bottom of a frame or some other odd place.