Hi acebird i watch guys all over the world on you tube who dont wear any gloves as you have said ,following a guy in new zealand that wore nitril and he didnt have any real problems so thats why i bought two boxes of them.
As i have said i did have bees all over my hands when inspecting the frames and not a problem apart from one 99% of the bees are just chilled out crawling over my hands while i do the inspection and that doesnt bother me at all only when feel that sharp pain of the stinger going in most times the bee that stings me isnt even on my fingers .
One was on the palm of my hand while i had a frame between two fingers and i watched as she poked out her stinger and jambed it in no where near where i was handling the frames another was walking across the back side of my hand again while i was holding a frame with two fingers and bang again not anywhere near my fingers.
I think i have just got some hoodlum bees in there ,i have noticed that when you start to crack frames they get a bit toey but again not smacking into me just buzzing about and i suppose i would be a bit annoyed if someone came and ripped open my house .
After putting on the second super for a week i went and checked it last wednesday and although progress is slow in it they have started to draw some of the frames out , however in the brood box they are going gangbusters ,i puled one frame in the brood box and i thought it was slightly stuck but when i looked at it above the brood was all capped honey and that was in 7 days the problem being is that our weather is up and down all over the place wednesday was 26 degrees today it will be lucky to make 18 and raining so not much activity at the hive today .
Im lucky as i can just go up to my little bee space and have a peek to see whats going on without disturbing them at all ,most mornings ill go up and have a peek im just fascinated by these little insects how they can fly away and come back to the exact spot. I dont know where they go but they head of in all different directions and there not slow either i call them my flying bullets some need futher trainng in how to land on the landing board they miss it and go under the hive then realize oops wrong spot .