Okay, bearing in mind that this is our first hive... I have a question. When we installed our bees, I removed five frames, set the queen cage in between two frames and shook 3 lbs of bees in each hive. I then replaced 9 of the frames and left. Several days later I went to make sure the queens got out... they had, but I also found that the bees had a small mass of comb in the space left around the queen cage. I removed the cage and put the tenth frame in, not thinking much about it. But, now I wonder, with all of this extra thick comb in there....have I violated the 3/8 space and will this cause the bees to leave comb off of the adjacent frame? Could or should I have removed or cut this down? Is this normal? Maybe I do not need to do anything? Thank You Roger Carlson -- Visit us: at the Farm: "http://www.netins.net/showcase/goldenoak/gof.htm" at Aledo Time "http://www.netins.net/showcase/goldenoak/att.htm"