Drying supers

[mat]

Two days ago I took my last honey. Five galons from one hive, not bad. After extracting I put the supers  back, on the inner cover and telescopic cover on top. I checked them today. There were plenty of bees working, but what supprised me there were newly caped cells, like they were gethering the leftovers into one cell and caping them insted of taking down into the hive. What should I do? Just live it, and they will finelly clean them, or something else?

[amymcg]

Try putting them about 100 feet away from the hive.

[Michael Bush]

If you want them cleaned and not refilled put them above the inner cover and below the cover.

[Finsky]

Often, when hive is full of honey and you give them empty supers, bees lift honey from brood area to upper area. Bees take also honey from cold corners.  It is they instinct to collect honey to compact area for winter.

When brood has emerged, bees collet honey from periferia to those empty cells.

[Bill the Beekeeper]

Bees always want to move up, so the fact that they started filling up the supers again is not surprising.

Two things to try:
1. Try putting the super hive body between the two main hive bodies.

2. Last year. I just put the frames out in the open next to the hive, and the bees collected the leftover honey and put it in the hive in a couple days.