Hello Peter and All,

 Someone should market a tan bee suit.

Brian Sherriff sells a tan suit in the U.K. He will ship you the suit or
bring to a meeting he is attending. Mine still looks dirty when you are
close up but not from a distance.

I have tried several of the copy cat Sherriff suits but find Brian's
superior for these reasons.

1. The Sheriff suit is lighter weight and thus cooler in hot weather.
2.  "         "        " fits tight at the ankles and sleeves
3. "          "        " veil does not come loose at the side zipper. This
is very upsetting when you toss back the veil to drive to another yard and
then have to slip the top down to rehook the side veil zipper.
4. ring on side for truck keys
5. several light colors available.

. I do not dry in dryer and heavy use of bleach will put holes in the suits
after a few years.

Peter's early days bee inspector stinging:

Also Peter many beekeepers used to collect venom and mix with water and
lightly mist bee inspectors when they were not looking. Any former bee
inspectors out there which used to always get stung on the back while
inspecting hives while the beekeeper never seemed to get stung?
You secretly hated to go to his bee farm and would make every excuse to keep
from inspecting his bees.

Bob