I saw a bit of it on TV once--the honeycomb is all in a frame thing in the boxes! The beekeepers pulled 'em out and took it...somewhere?

[It had been a story on the news, so they hadn't paid that much attention, but now they're sorely wishing they had. Maybe then they'd have known about the smoke thing, too.]

Maybe you just break it out...? The bees can fix the wax part, right?