It would depend upon the number of coloneys you own, what you are doing to them, and how you are dressed. Typically I can go several days without a sting, but that is only because whenever I am doing something as severe as splitting hives, etc.. I suit up fully with additional layers of clothing underneath. I have been stung once through a glove though, as well as other places through clothing. If you have enough layers of clothing on they are not able to penetrate. If I am just adding syrup to the inner feeders then I typically will not suit up, and in many cases not even place a veil on. As for number of stings, I still get stung perhaps fifty to one hundred times a year. Some days it is almost unbearable with the clothes on in the summer, and I imagine anybody living in the south simply could not do this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Wells [log in to unmask] Barrie, Ontario, Canada