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About 3 weeks ago, way too long ago now that I check the date I had a smart idea which I read about in beesource or heard from someone, to help the queen move up to the second box which is a medium. The first box is a deep. My thoughts were to expand the brood nest and maybe avoid swarming.

So I moved one of the deep frames up to the medium box and left a space in the deep box for the deep frame to hang down.
I knew I was in trouble yesterday when I looked up through the screened bottom and saw the space was full of bees.
Today I went in and the deep frame that I moved up was ok with brood and the medium next to deep had brood as well. But it also had three 6 to 8 inch long tear drops of soft comb hanging on the bottom of the frame down into the deep box.
I was able to cut the 3 pieces of comb off and replace the deep back in the deep box and returned the medium frame back to the medium box. But I lost the brood in the 3 teardrops as well as the work the bees did in the building. The teardrops were narrow and did not seem to lend themselves to rubber banding in a frame.
Hopefully the queen will continue to lay in both boxes.
Lesson - Three weeks is TOOO long.
Reason - Weather, unexpected trip excuses excuses...

Reread the post on beesource. It tells you the bees will draw under the frame and you will have to cut it of and loose that much comb.

PAY ATTENTION, SON!!!!!!!

LOL There's tooooo much to remember. Tooooo many ways to do stuff. lol The more stuff I do with bees the less I know.

That is way too funny. Ski, it is always funny to me how we get these GREAT ideas and then when we find ourselves in them, some of the simple things just seem to slip our mind. But now you have the great thing....experience.

Yes, L&H it seemed simple at the time and the bright side I have brood in the second box.