Sorry, accidentally hit the touch pad while typing.
 
We just hauled bees from MT to MO, set them up for a week, then back to MT, 
 reset them for trials.
 
We inspected colonies before and after - brood, bee population size,  
infra-red imaging, and weight.  Moved these colonies in heat of day - we  like to 
sleep at nights.  Hit temps of 106 F during day, 50s at night in MT  and 
the Dakotas, with rain on two days.
 
We monitored temp inside colonies as we went.  We did 'cheat' in that  we 
kept air moving over the colonies and had a misting system to provide water  
when conditions got very hot.  But most of the time, we weren't doing  
anything out of the ordinary.
 
We opened the colonies and had bees on our training feeders in 15 minutes,  
both in MO and in MT.  No aggressiveness, no piles of dead bees - and after 
 two long days on the road, each direction, no more dead bees on ground in 
front  of hive than what we normally expect to see from stat

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