Bees fanning…solid floor

[Do224]

There are bees busy fanning outside the entrance of one of my hives…the hive with the solid floor. No fanning at the others which all have OMFs.

Is this normal? We had quite a good flow over the past few days (although it’s been quite wet today), so are they just drying out the nectar they’ve brought in?

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[jenkinsbrynmair]

perfectly normal, just moving air around to ripen the honey

 

[Tony Slater]

There is no point bees fanning at the entrance where this is an open mesh floor. Whether they are “sucking” or “ blowing”, any current they try to create at the entrance is completely disrupted by the much larger opening that is the floor.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

There is no point bees fanning at the entrance where this is an open mesh floor.

but they do - and they will