[avallini]

Bees were installed 29 April. They're doing very well despite temps around 50s during the day and almost freezing at night until this weekend. I'm seeing lots of pollen going in--I opened the hive today and moved the syrup jar and they had drawn comb up through the hole in the inner cover nearly touching the lid on the syrup jar. Should I knock that comb off to the inside of the frame or just leave it? They've drawn comb on at least one side of seven frames in the first (only) deep I have on right now.

 

[Carl F]

I usually scrape all of the burr and brace comb that I can during an inspection. If you don't, they'll make more that can make removing and replacing frame hard. They'll also put nectar into the cells or lay drones in them. Both just make for a mess when you break them open in the process of moving things around.

 

[Beeslave]

If there is to much space between the top bars and the feeder the bees will build burr(ladder) comb so they can reach the syrup easier.

 

[propet12]

Same thing happens in some of my hive-top feeders. Like Beeslave says, they are making it easier to get to the syrup - so I leave it until I take the syrup off. They just build it again as soon as I have scraped it off (they sometimes lay in it too).