To sew or not to sew

Today Suzi, Hannah and Gil went to see if we could rescue the collapsed comb in Hive 2.

You can see from the photograph there are two distinct clumps of bees - the top clump has not really moved very much since they were first 'knocked' into the hive nearly a month ago. The clump at the bottom are covering the collapsed comb - which probably contains a lot of larvae and eggs.  On closer inspection we came to the conclusion that we would very probably injure far more larvae and bees by trying to grapple and sew the comb back onto the bars.  To be honest - this smaller colony has never had much of a chance - after being stripped of their food and young, and relocated so late into what has been a dreadful year for bees.
We decided to leave the hive for now, do some more research and hopefully get some support from someone else. . .