hydroponic greenhouse beekeeping?

[Mitch]

Is anyone here doing this or reserching the subject of pollination in a hydroponic greenhouse? I have been asked by a local if it is possible?

[Sundance]

As posted here the trouble with the green
house scenario is the bees get disorientated
and run into the glass, can't negotiate the
way out and die in numbers.

[Dick Allen]

Yes, it is being researched and honey bees are sometimes used for greenhouse pollination.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12852587&dopt=Abstract

http://esa.confex.com/esa/2001/techprogram/paper_2080.htm

(Type in honey bee +greenhouse +Canada in one of the online searchers for more information)

[ August 02, 2006, 11:32 AM: Message edited by: Dick Allen ]

[Mitch]

Thanks for the input guys.

At this point i do not think i will try the greenhouse with honey bees, but may try to help out with the bumbles.

[Nick Noyes]

We put nucs in screened cages to pollinate carrot seed. They are in there for about a month and come out in pretty tuff shape. If you could rotate them in and out every 2 weeks I think it would work pretty good.