I have been wanting to make some late splits and I had 4 early splits in double deeps that were excessively bearding so I wanted to move them into a deep hive body. Today was one of my last good opportunities for a couple of weeks to work them. I WILL NEVER MAKE SPLITS AGAIN NOR WORK BEES IN WEATHER LIKE THIS. I think I almost died and probably about gave my son a heat stroke. The temperature was a very tolerable 88 degrees when we started but the humidity was running around 55%. Right after we started a T'storm popped up and moved just to our south and east. We got no cool air from the storm but the humidity popped up to 85%. I hear "the 150 rule" often during the summer. That's when the temperature plus humidity % added together equals 150 or more. 150 is rough but 173 is real bad.
To top it off I only found a suitable amount of capped brood to feel comfortable making one split. I could have made more but with the sweat pouring into my eyes I didn't find a single queen. So I took one frame of eggs from one hive, one frame of pollen and honey from another hive and a frame of dark capped brood from a third hive and stuck them all in one nuc and will let them ride. I put the bees on each frame in the nuc and smoked them very good to hopefully keep them from fighting.
To top it off I only found a suitable amount of capped brood to feel comfortable making one split. I could have made more but with the sweat pouring into my eyes I didn't find a single queen. So I took one frame of eggs from one hive, one frame of pollen and honey from another hive and a frame of dark capped brood from a third hive and stuck them all in one nuc and will let them ride. I put the bees on each frame in the nuc and smoked them very good to hopefully keep them from fighting.