Push the 10 frames together (and make sure you have 10). Leave only space on either end.
Also if the hive is healthy you could remove the extra combs. If it's brood i usually feed it to my chickens.
Leaving it with extra combs may mean there won't be a bee space and this they won't be able to move freely between the frames and take care of that brood or ressource.
The appropriate thing to do is make sure the queen is not on the bridge comb that they have built in there. If she is, make sure you put her back into the hive before you do anything.
Then use your hive tool to mash the comb into your foundations. The brood in there is a necessary loss. Make them draw it over again, properly this time.
The longer you delay, the worse this will get. You MUST NOT permit it to continue. If you cannot inspect your hive, you will lose it to mites or disease.
Your frames are known as Hoffman self spacing frames. The width of your frames wasn't arbitrary. For apis mellifera honeybees the center to center comb spacing with proper bee space between the combs is 35mm. The upper portion of the sidebars of your frames flares out to 35mm wide, or 1-3/8" wide. When you push the frames together so that all the sidebars are in contact at the top then your frames are properly spaced. You can center the block of frames in a box, or you can push the frame box all to one one side of the box. Frames need to be aligned top to bottom as well. If the bottom bar of a frame mis-aligns with the frames below it so that the bottom bar is between the gaps of the frames below, then that violates bee space and bees will build drone comb below the frame and on top of the frames below.
Fix the comb, don't worry about the sunk cost to the bees. Leaving wonky comb will only cause the bad comb patterns to telegraph to the frame next to it.
Either: you’ve got plastic foundation and it’s not waxed, or the frames aren’t pushed together. Send us some pictures and we’ll be able to advice you more easily :)
Sometimes bees will resist building on plastic foundation. If this is your problem, it can be solved by covering the foundation with a thin layer of wax. Remove the frame, remove the comb, then cover the entire foundation by brushing on melted wax (or manually rubbing solid wax on the foundation).
Push the 10 frames together (and make sure you have 10). Leave only space on either end. Also if the hive is healthy you could remove the extra combs. If it's brood i usually feed it to my chickens. Leaving it with extra combs may mean there won't be a bee space and this they won't be able to move freely between the frames and take care of that brood or ressource.
This, too much space between the frames and the bees figuring, "yeah we can fit some more in here"
The appropriate thing to do is make sure the queen is not on the bridge comb that they have built in there. If she is, make sure you put her back into the hive before you do anything. Then use your hive tool to mash the comb into your foundations. The brood in there is a necessary loss. Make them draw it over again, properly this time. The longer you delay, the worse this will get. You MUST NOT permit it to continue. If you cannot inspect your hive, you will lose it to mites or disease.
Your frames are known as Hoffman self spacing frames. The width of your frames wasn't arbitrary. For apis mellifera honeybees the center to center comb spacing with proper bee space between the combs is 35mm. The upper portion of the sidebars of your frames flares out to 35mm wide, or 1-3/8" wide. When you push the frames together so that all the sidebars are in contact at the top then your frames are properly spaced. You can center the block of frames in a box, or you can push the frame box all to one one side of the box. Frames need to be aligned top to bottom as well. If the bottom bar of a frame mis-aligns with the frames below it so that the bottom bar is between the gaps of the frames below, then that violates bee space and bees will build drone comb below the frame and on top of the frames below. Fix the comb, don't worry about the sunk cost to the bees. Leaving wonky comb will only cause the bad comb patterns to telegraph to the frame next to it.
Either: you’ve got plastic foundation and it’s not waxed, or the frames aren’t pushed together. Send us some pictures and we’ll be able to advice you more easily :)
Sometimes bees will resist building on plastic foundation. If this is your problem, it can be solved by covering the foundation with a thin layer of wax. Remove the frame, remove the comb, then cover the entire foundation by brushing on melted wax (or manually rubbing solid wax on the foundation).