Update

So about a week ago I opened the hives to see that the huge amount of comb. They had drawn and FILLED over a frames worth of comb. I borrowed a suit the other day and decided to cut it out and salvage what I could. Unfortunately, they didn't like this at all and I felt I needed to smoke them. Interestingly enough the bees did get RATHER preoccupied with the smoke and a large number of them took to the air, but were not aggressive. I did cut the comb, but it lacked the strength for me to salvage it. I ended up setting it down and letting the bees salvage their nectar/honey/pollen.

This comb was not quite empty at the end of the day, but it now resides in a bucket until I decide to melt it down.

I filled the boxes with frames in the empty space (the reason for the stray comb).

This morning they were drawing on ALL of the frames in those boxes, so they got a fresh feeding and a FULL box each of frames with starter strips (short pieces of foundation held in with popsicle sticks held in horizontally in the groove).

I plan on checking on them in about a week, but feeding them between now and then.

They seem healthy, but I have noticed that the activity at the entrance has gone way down! Both hives seem relatively docile now, but somewhat more defensive than they were there at the beginning.

Also, in the feeder this morning I noticed my first small hive beetle. I guess I better get some traps set out!