Diversity and abundance of insect pollinators of sweet cherry <i>Prunus avium</i> in Kashmir valley

Dar, Showket A; Wani, A. R.; Sofi, Muneer Ahmad

doi:10.5958/0974-8172.2018.00231.6

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“…An interaction between pollinator type and floral trait variation may be a potentially important feature of flower selection e.g. cherry (Dar et al 2018a; Wilson and Thomson 1996) [9,41] . This interaction is likely to be particularly important since different pollinators often show marked spatio-temporal variation in abundance (Herrera 1989) [19] and pollination effectiveness.…”

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“…Allsopp et al (2008) [3] reported that peach and plum pollination service is largely provided by wild pollinators and honeybees; however the Dikmen, (2007) [17] reviewed the economic value of using wild pollinator bees in organic farming and found Halictidae as one of the biggest groups throughout the pollinator bees widely distributed in all continents, with pollination efficiency contributed by their high abundance and large diversity. Knowing the significance of insect pollinators for stone fruit production (Dar et al 2016) [14] , especially peaches, current study was focused to determine the foraging behaviour and visitation frequency of insect on peach in unmanaged and scattered fruit trees growing in wild habitat with no inputs used for the soil culturing.…”

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Mountain landscapes, foraging behaviour and visitation frequencies of insect pollinators on peach (Prunus persia)

Dar¹,

Wani²,

Javeed³

et al. 2020

Int. J. Chem. Stud.

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The pollination services provided by wild insect fauna in peach depends on many factors, among them the diverse landscapes and habitat diversity is of immense importance contributing to foraging characteristics and hourly visitation frequencies. A considerable variation existed in visitation rate; total visits, percent visitation and total time spend on peach flowers by insect pollinators/visitors during our course of study in low maintained mountainous landscapes. Flower handling times consumed by species created a significant variation between total visitation and visitation rate. Most species prefer to collect pollen however the nectar is main reward from flowers, therefore time per flower sought by hymenopteran species were inherently shorter than lepidopteran and dipteran species. Among the members of genus Lasioglossum the total visits, visitation rate and per cent visitation were found highest by species L. marginatum and overall the order hymenoptera showed comparatively higher visitation rate, total visits and per cent visitation on peach flowers. From members of family Apidae species Xylocopa valga and X. violacea makes highest number of total visits followed by family Halictidae. During the two years of studies, almost 95% of the available peach flowers were visited by foraging wild bees varied significantly as per ANOVA; however, the statistical significance across two years of investigation varies too. The time spend by pollinators/visitors on peach flower bout varies among different species. Rank dominance curve (K-dominance curve) were determined with respect to species abundance and inferences were drawn species wise.

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Mountain landscapes, foraging behaviour and visitation frequencies of insect pollinators on peach (Prunus persia)

Dar¹,

Wani²,

Javeed³

et al. 2020

Int. J. Chem. Stud.

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“…For instance, by providing co‐flowering plants or managing orchards organically, cherry pollinator richness can be enhanced (Gilpin, O'Brien, et al, 2022 ; Mateos‐Fierro et al, 2023 ; Rosas‐Ramos et al, 2020 ). Notably, measures promoting pollinators should be tailored to geographical regions and local conditions, as pollinator communities differ between regions (Dar et al, 2018 ). Importantly, providing nesting material might be beneficial for other sweet cherry pollinators in other regions (Gilpin, Brettell, et al, 2022 ).…”

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Mason bees and honey bees synergistically enhance fruit set in sweet cherry orchards

Osterman,

Benton,

Hellström

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Ecology and Evolution

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“…(Osterman et al, 2021;Fierro et al, 2022;Prashanth, 2009;Michener, 2000). Their diversity and abundance have been studied extensively due to the considerable impact on diverse crops (Rosas-Ramos et al, 2020;Dar et al, 2018).…”

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Bees diversity and distribution dynamics among various agro-climatic regions of Indian Punjab

Kaur

Choudhary

Mohindru

et al. 2023

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Diversity and abundance of bees were estimated in six agro-climatic regions of an intensive agricultural state of India i.e. Punjab during the year 2020-21. Random sampling was done at various locations in all the six agro-climatic regions. Thirty sweeps of the hand insect net were made at each location. Overall, 7482 bees’ specimens were collected among which the most abundant bee species was Apis mellifera Linnaeus (12.58%), followed by Apis dorsata Fabricius (12.24%), Apis cerana Fabricius (11.61%) and Apis florea Fabricius (9.18%). The highly diverse regions with respect to number of bee species and their respective numbers were Sub-mountain Undulating (30 species, 1674 individuals) and Undulating Plain regions (29 species, 1662 individuals). The least diverse region was Western region (20 species, 743 individuals). Bombus haemorrhoidalis Smith was rare and restricted only to extreme Eastern part of the state, adjacent to hilly region, with relative abundance of 0.72 per cent. Sub-mountain Undulating and Undulating Plain regions were highly similar to each other as represented by Bray-Curtis and Jaccard’s indices. These two regions, had lower cropping intensity than other regions, provided lesser disturbed area and agro-chemical usage. Thus, these regions fulfil the utmost requirement of the native bee species i.e. good nesting place with ample food resources. Nonetheless, further studies are required to intensively investigate the area and to find possible linkage of various agricultural landscapes with bee pollinators’ community.

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Diversity and abundance of insect pollinators of sweet cherry Prunus avium in Kashmir valley

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Mountain landscapes, foraging behaviour and visitation frequencies of insect pollinators on peach (Prunus persia)

Mountain landscapes, foraging behaviour and visitation frequencies of insect pollinators on peach (Prunus persia)

Mason bees and honey bees synergistically enhance fruit set in sweet cherry orchards

Bees diversity and distribution dynamics among various agro-climatic regions of Indian Punjab

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