Ace, I have only used gloves, other than my first year, once and that was for removing honey from a very mean hive. I only had to do that once. Once I started using the 10 minute/30 second smoke rule even they calmed down.
In this case I just rubbed the smell off and kept on working. They were very calm.
I just came back from the salvage yard. I vacuumed the rest of the bees up. I will weigh them shortly but I think I got another 2 pounds of bees. They were also very calm even though they were queen less all night
I put the main swarm in a their hive box this morning. They had built a 6? by 3? piece of comb and the queen lauded some eggs in it already.
Jim