How did they prevent the bees from bouncing off of the screens until
they were dead?
We have a produce grower close by. He grows tomatoes in greenhouses for
an early start. When the tomatoes are blooming he opens the curtains and
sets a hive beside the greenhouse.

Tom
Shippensburg, Pa


Journal of Economic Entomology: Vol. 96, No. 3, pp. 547-554.

Managing Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) for Greenhouse Tomato
Pollination
Holly A. Sabara and Mark L. Winston

and flight
activity in screened greenhouses during the winter, and 2) compared
foraging from colonies with brood used within screened and unscreened
greenhouses during the summer. In our summer experiment, brood
production in screened greenhouses neared zero after 21 d but higher

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