They fit very tight and comfortable, I love the way they feel. When I realized the stains on my gauntlet style gloves, I can see the genius behind making these gloves in a brown color. The best part is how these gloves integrate with the sleeves on the jacket! There is that spot of velcro that seals the short glove to the ventilated jacket there is no more need for the extra length of a gauntleted glove, no extra heat on your forearm.
The gloves stay cool. Very good dexterity. Extremely well made. For any medical people who know their glove size, I wear 6.5 or 7.0 gloves and the medium Apis gloves fit perfectly. I would give these an 8.5. The one thing that would make these a 9.5 (I never give 10’s), would be for the cuffs to be longer on the goatskin gloves. I don’t understand why they make longer cuffs on the cowhide gloves but not the goatskin. When working hives, lifting supers, etc, my jacket sleeves can ride up over the cuffs exposing sensitive skin to pissed off bees. All in all, the best gloves I have ever used.
The gloves were a little snug initially but are breaking in nicely as I have used them. Dexterity is important to me. These are great to wear instead of the long gloves and my hands are not sweaty like when I wore the nitrile gloves.
These gloves are awesome. I hope they last. When they eventually do wear out I will definitely be buying more.
I bought these in early April but haven’t had a chance to use them. On May 15th, 2025, I picked up a swarm I caught in a swarm trap and brought it home after dark. There are no lights in my beeyard so I was working with a headlamp, lights from my truck and my wife was holding a flashlight about 30 feet from the hive. Once I opened the trap up the bees got really fired up, I had bees divebombing my veil and headlamp and covering my gloves. Normally I work bees without gloves, I’m so glad I had the Apis gloves on, I’m confident that I would have had multiple strings on my hands. The bees went after my wife, and she got stung on her right hand; guess I’ll be getting her a pair of gloves. The gloves worked great. I would recommend these to anyone wanting extra protection.
