CRAP! Bees infested with SHB larvae in the Owl House Bunch Nuc Box

Just when I thought things were settled down......  I noted fly's around the outside side and that's not normal.  I immediately suited up and removed the top box off the bottom.  I pulled a frame and it was covered in Small Hive Beatle larvae.  Damn! Damn Damn.  Going to town they had made a pile of mush in about 1/3rd of the frame.  I pulled the others.  Same thing!  Just coated with goo and crawling magets.

I opted to get the frames transferred over to another Nuc box while I emptied out the box with the bees the best I could.  Grabbed handfuls of goo and tossed it in a pile.  Moved the bees off the frame best I could.  Walked them under the oak tree where my propane torch is.  I took the Nuc Box and pounded on it to get the bees to fly away.  Some did and some didn't.  Torched the inside of the box, bees that remained and all the larvae and beetles.  No more problem in the box.  I took the frames to the porch and got the bees off best I could.  Took the 4 frames and put them in plastic bag and put them in the freezer.  They will remain in the freezer for 48 hours.  I will pull them and put them back in the box with the Owl Bunch Gang. 

Long story short this probably is going to be the start of serious problems for me with the introduction of Small hive beetles.  Damn! DAMN DAMN.  Try and do something wonderful and it has now backfired.  I didn't take any photo's as this is just a quick discovery and I handled it immediately. 

I probably didn't have much option other then to do what I did.  That's all I know how to do.  I don't know if the bees will make it.  I can't combine them in the other hives, that's for sure.    The only way I could do that is if they just didn't have small hive beetles.  Sigh!  double down sigh!   Please Bee hive #1 and 2 let them co-exist in your colony. 

Zak