Help - I don't want to give up beekeeping yet.

[drumgerry]

I think the ones I've bought are maybe more in line with your pound a pair gloves C4U - long cuffs and thick. I'm imagining a pair per single apiary inspection but I'll maybe get longer out of them.

[Calluna4u]

I think the ones I've bought are maybe more in line with your pound a pair gloves C4U - long cuffs and thick. I'm imagining a pair per single apiary inspection but I'll maybe get longer out of them.

Thinking about it more closely, it will be the equivalent of 180 to 200 colonies per pair.....each team of two gets through about 400 colonies per week.

We wash them between apiaries...in the bucket of washing soda solution that we clean the hives tools, smoker bellows etc with.