I’d suspect that it’s not the end of the world, but you’ll have to clear wild comb and perhaps harvest wild honey.
For an example, I left a gap in my hive and the bees filled it in a week with one large wild comb full of honey.
I have a 35 mm eke on my top box and half the frames are shorter. They fill that gap with hanging comb that connects the bottom of these frames in the top box to the top of the frames in the next box. This they fill with honey and it breaks with every inspection.
They clean that up, but it’s also a waste of resources spending the bee-power moving the honey and rebuilding that darned brace comb each time. (I really need to move those DN4’s!)
Could be amusing to leave it there, but probably just a waste of the bees’ resources.
For an example, I left a gap in my hive and the bees filled it in a week with one large wild comb full of honey.
I have a 35 mm eke on my top box and half the frames are shorter. They fill that gap with hanging comb that connects the bottom of these frames in the top box to the top of the frames in the next box. This they fill with honey and it breaks with every inspection.
They clean that up, but it’s also a waste of resources spending the bee-power moving the honey and rebuilding that darned brace comb each time. (I really need to move those DN4’s!)
Could be amusing to leave it there, but probably just a waste of the bees’ resources.
Running "Foundationless All Mediums with No Queen Excluder". Each box is national spec, but 190mm deep.