I think the question has been answered here. If you wear gloves, wash them, or smoke them very deeply, disguise the build up scent of the alarm. I do not wear gloves, period, ever. I used to when I first began to beekeep, but found any kind of glove far too cumbersome and with my bare hands I can feel things that I certainly can't with gloves, like the bees wings or bodies. I don't think I have ever harmed a bee to raise that alarm pheromone. My girls barely even know that I am in their colony working, I am almost invisible, hee, hee. In summertime I only wear a tank top out to work the bees, that way that have no dark sleeves to climb up, haven't received a sting yet on my torso or upper arms since I began beekeeping in 2005. Well, I have had stings to the hands and face, but rarely and few. Maybe my girls are just nice..... :-X ;) :) :) :)Have that most wonderful and awesome day. Cindi