Inspected the cut out I did a week ago, they have been tidying up the frames obviously pulling out loose bit of dirt and debris.
Squashed 3 SHB I saw in the first 2 boxes I removed, when I started removing frames from the bottom box I was greeted with this
Bottom board was covered with debris and crawling with SHB larvae, bees looked to be corralling them on the bottom board. There were walls of bees around solid clumps of larvae.
Don't know if I did the right thing but I put the frames into a new clean box and bottom board and took the infested box away and tipped into a container of oil. I went back and put in apithor beetle trap.
Only found 3 more SHB in the dirty box but there were 1000's of larvae, the hive is obviously stressed with being moved and given the comb transferred across is very dirty with small bits of timber etc through it there are plenty of places for SHB to hide and lay. I didn't see any SHB or larvae on any of the comb and the beetles I squashed were all on the boxes.
Queen was on the freshly drawn foundation frames I put in, there is a nice half moon of honey on the top and I think I could see freshly laid eggs towards the centre of the frame she was on.
There is still a bit of capped brood in the comb I have transferred across but the when I inspected 3 days ago the queen was on the fresh frames and again today so if she is laying it will be on the new clean frames
Thinking the best thing to do will be get rid of the old dirty comb as soon as possible, I don't have any drawn comb so would have to give them foundation.
There is a bit of honey in all the dirty frames with brood, if I remove these as the brood hatches what is the best way to get the bees to transfer the honey to fresh comb? The hive is about 1 mile from my other hives, would it be safe to simply uncap it and hope they transfer it or is the chance of starting a robbing frenzy to great.