My son does medieval reenacting and they have gloves with gauntlets.
Mabey do a search for gloves with gauntlets ?

 

When I read this post I thought you should try disposable palpating gloves, then I thought these might work better.

 

When I read this post I thought you should try disposable palpating gloves, then I thought these might work better. View attachment 67598

I use chemical rubber gloves that look like that for beekeeping. They work well because the bees don't like to sting the rubber and so don't cause as much alarm pheromones. The leather gloves beekeepers often use are not very good for beekeeping because bees love to sting leather for some reason.
The chemical rubber gloves that I got from Harbor Freight are very tough, too. Once I hit a nail through a finger and it only stretched the rubber, instead of making a hole in it. Other rubber gloves are not as tough and ware out quickly.

 

Those MUMUKE gloves look great. Thanks.

 

I would look for something like cleaning gloves, some of them are fairly long. I use long nitrile gloves, but the bees can occasionally sting thru them still. I have found with my (nicer) bees that long nitrile gloves and hair elastic bands over my wrists (to keep my jacket tight to my gloves) usually works.


edit: these might also work. Showa® Atlas® 772 Chemical Resistant Nitrile Gloves - Medium S-21080-M - Uline

they look like they are chemical gloves

 

I use the brick red Harbor Freight gloves with the yellow fuzzy lining. Wear them as is for a day or two and the yellow fuzzy lining comes off. I then fit and stitch a pants leg from a thrift store pair of white jeans to them, so you could make any length you want, even up to your armpits.

I bought the long blue rubber gloves, but a lot of bees sing them and die. Very few bees sting these red ones.

 

Are you going to re-queen the hives to get rid of those genes?

 

That was my reaction too, but I guess in some locations it "comes with the territory" !

 

https://www.amazon.com/artificial-insemination-gloves/s?k=artificial+insemination+gloves

Used to use these back in the day. Might work if worn over a long-sleeved shirt. By themselves probably not thick enough.

 

Here is my first gloves, well one of them anyway, can not find the mate.
They were used in 1971 when they were handed to me.

I found them to be just too clumsy to work in. I then went to leather gloves and now don't hardly ever were any.

 

heck I have a set of those old gloves from the late 50's or early 60's and they still work but so heavy that I dot use them unless problems. I had bees from 1958 thru 94 and got back into bee keeping 5 years ago. My old original smoker still works better then the one that lasted two years. Have you tried the lite weight leather ones with a set of nitrile gloves under them? 80% of the time or more I use just the nitrile exam gloves but they can sting thru them but with the nitriles under the lite wt leather glove the bees do not smell you and usually will not sting thru the gloves

My bees are feral bees from north of Houston but still will be what I call mother in law bees and be really pissy some days. What do you expect when you get 30 k females together???
Over all they remind me of the old Italian bees we grew up with. I had a couple of hives and my uncle had about 100 back in the early 60's Really simple back then. All you had to do was not do anything stupid to kill your bees with no mites or beetles.

 

Resturant supply stores sell dishwasher rubber gauntlets that are sting proof but have lotion for your hands when you take them off.

 

IP address suggests Bocabee is in Panama. I expect that it would be difficult to NOT have Africanized bees in Panama.

 

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these work great, bees cant stong the rubber so you end up with less/no dead bees.
The VERY big downside is that rubber gets very sweaty.

 

Thank you all for your good advice. I've ordered the MUMUKE gloves. If those don't work I'll try the Brewing Gloves in previous post or something similar. I'm in Panama so re-queening with non-Africanized bees, though a nice idea, is not an option. Bees here, except for the native stingless bees which are very interesting but don't produce as much honey, are Africanized.

 

Excuse my ignorance but why would someone maintain and propagate Africanized bees??

 

If you look back a few posts in this thread, you will see that Bocabee is in Panama. Africanized honey bees are what you have to live with in Panama.