On the subject of gloves and smokers I tried and experiment when using the adapted snelgrove 2 on my normally mean girls.
Very thoroughly went over my leather gloves being sure I "had " got all the stings out, put them on and gave them a bit of a wash under the tap. Not enough to soak through them but enough to remove most of any smokey smell and hopefully sting pheromone, then gave them a very light spray with deodorant and I do mean very .
Along with this I didn't smoke the enterance or under the crown board and just went nice and slowly through the frames moving the couple of capped ones into the spare brood box ,along with some stores and setting the supers to one side; after an little peek at how they were doing.
Even with having to pull it apart a second time to put the supers in the right place I only used the smoker once to discourage a very persistent vail bumper that was upsetting my Mrs.
So it looks like over smoking and smelly gloves may have been my issue.
Very thoroughly went over my leather gloves being sure I "had " got all the stings out, put them on and gave them a bit of a wash under the tap. Not enough to soak through them but enough to remove most of any smokey smell and hopefully sting pheromone, then gave them a very light spray with deodorant and I do mean very .
Along with this I didn't smoke the enterance or under the crown board and just went nice and slowly through the frames moving the couple of capped ones into the spare brood box ,along with some stores and setting the supers to one side; after an little peek at how they were doing.
Even with having to pull it apart a second time to put the supers in the right place I only used the smoker once to discourage a very persistent vail bumper that was upsetting my Mrs.
So it looks like over smoking and smelly gloves may have been my issue.