Nitrile gloves

[mark s]

thanx hawklord

 

[paulkrt]

If your after latex or nitrile gloves try your local motor factors, I buy them in 10 boxes of 100 at as low as £1.80 box, £18 a pack for latex

 

[lusklabs]

and they still nip through the nitrile ones.....

 

[Nik]

I use latex gloves from the local engineers supplies place. They have a huge range of different types of gloves but the ones with long cuffs are more expensive and thicker than the latex ones. I wear two pairs of latex gloves and only if you are really trying do you get stung through. The big benefit is that they are cheap enough that you can do a couple of hives then change the outer pair. This gets rid of and sticky propolis and the smell of the hive so you are not annoying the bees as much as with the leather gloves. This keeps the bees calmer and less likely to sting anyway.