I installed 2 packages in April, each in 1 medium. My desire is to be completely foundationless, so I have wedge top bars with the wedges nailed in sideways for starter strips, and grooved bottom bars. The bees filled out the brood boxes very nicely, all things considered. In each hive I do have a pair of frames that is cross combed to the point that they are stuck together, but otherwise each frame is filled out more or less correctly at this point. I added another medium 2 or 3 weeks ago (I can check my notes if anyone needs to know exactly when). After I added the 2nd box, the bees started connecting the top bars of the 1st box, to the bottom bars of the 2nd box. Last week I scraped it all off, but of course they just rebuilt it, and the one hive had so much comb between boxes, I could barely even remove the 2nd box today! Now they seem to be drawing out wax starting from some of the bottom bars and going upwards, which is resulting in a seriously wacky, cross-combed mess in the 2nd medium. I just did inspections of both hives, 1 yesterday and 1 today, and I spent probably an hour cutting out weirdly drawn comb and rubber banding the big pieces in straight. Since I needed to try to encourage them to at least draw straight, I did the only thing I could think of, which is give them comb guides on the bottom bars, so using some of the wax left on the bottom bars I stuck popsicle sticks in the grooves. So, will giving them guides on the bottom help? If not, how do I get them to draw from the top, or at least straight? And how can I prevent them from connecting the 2 boxes together with ladders of comb?