Quote Originally Posted by Rosie View Post
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I suspect Jon's £6-a-100 gloves may be short cuffed.
They are short cuffed but all you need is something to close the gap between glove and wrist such as the cuffs sold various places or a wrist support thingy such as this.

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Both work well with the short nitriles.

Bare handed is good, and if you lack confidence start with nucs or Apideas. A colony tends to get a bit livlier as it grows. Make sure you keep decent bees which don't go buck mad every time they are opened.
Some people keep really aggressive bees and dress up like Buzz Aldrin or a deep sea diver to do a routine colony inspection and consider this normal.