National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Pollination is a critical mechanism that promotes the yield of many crops in our environment. The pollination process primarily includes banks of animal pollinators, of which the insect population forms a major part. Studies on diversity of various insect visitors to apple crop was made by collecting the flower visitors in different orchards located at Nauni (Solan), Mashobra (Shimla) and Seobagh (Kullu) in the year 2018-2019. Insect diversity studies showed that apple flowers were visited by 34 species of insects belonging to 5 orders and 11 families of class insect. Of these, 13 species belonged to Hymenoptera, 12 from Diptera, 5 from Lepidoptera, 3 from Coleoptera and 1 to order Thysanoptera. Among the insects sampled by different methods, Apis mellifera, A. cerana and Episyrphus balteatus were most frequent visitors.
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