Quelle mess! Or, I still don't know what I'm doing

Blackberries are on their way

Two days ago I looked into all three hives, only the top box to check for honey.  #1 has not drawn any new comb that I could see in the top super.  I added a second super to #2, checkerboarding four frames of unripe honey from the first super.
When I looked into #3, for a moment I was pleased to see comb and nectar in the foundationless frames, but quickly realized that they had built from the bottom and the comb was every which way, mostly crossing the frames.  I pondered what to do and then did nothing and closed up the hive.
I put sticky boards into all three hives finding and squishing a fat was moth worm in #3.  Then I went inside to research what to do about the crosscombing in foundationless frames.
It is not uncommon for the bees to start building from the bottom if they do not have a "ladder" to get to the top.  The beekeeper should intersperse frame with either drawn comb or foundation.  Live and learn.
Yesterday I went out to try to correct the crosscombing.  First I had to remove the frames attempting to do little damage.  Dream on!  I took out two frames from the edge and gazed with dismay at what the girls had wrought.

The first part of the mess

A closer view

Another angle

To remove a frame, I first had to separate it from its neighbor.  I used a knife and the hive tool to slice through the comb, much of which had ripening honey in the cells.  It quickly became messy with sticky gloves and tools as well as bees coated with honey or squished.  I tried to leave as much comb on the frames as I could, but large hunks fell off.

Pieces of comb from first frame with the girls lapping up the honey

It still looks neat in the above picture.  Later there was honey, pieces of was and gooped up bees all over the tops of the frames.
I worked away, freeing frames, trimming the comb so it was not sticking out and putting them back, alternating foundation and foundationless.  Most of the comb that was left was not oriented properly but I decided to leave it anyway hoping the bees would straighten things out.  More likely, they will just continue the comb at the same angle and cross comb to the foundation.  (Live and learn.)
Then I came to one set of three frames that I could not see how to break apart.  (I was looking between the frames and there were bees all over.)  These frames came out as one unit.

Block of three frames

I stuck wads of wax at the junction of the ridge and the top of the frame to encourage the bees to start building there.  Of course, there is still a lot of wax on the bottoms of the frames.
I also got a bunch of wax and some unripe honey to process.  In a week I'll take a look a look- keep your fingers crossed!