Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

SOLITARY BEES POLLINATION STUDIES ON CASSIA FISTULA PLANT IN HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA

Vinod K. Mattu, Arun Kumar

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 Pollination studies have been conducted on Cassia fistula plant located at Nahan (933 m) in Sirmour hills and Arki (1104 m) in Solan hills of Himachal Pradesh, during the years from 2012–2016. Cassia flowers were visited by 16 species of solitary bees belonging to 4 families of order Hymenoptera of class Insecta. Of these, 7 belonged to Apidae, 5 to Megachilidae, 3 to Halictidae and 1 to Andrenidae family. Diversity and relative abundance data on Cassia bloom showed that Xylocopa fenestrata was the most dominant bee pollinator at both Nahan (31.65%) and Arki (27.05%). Besides this, other effective solitary bee pollinators were: Ceratina gigantica (22.84%, 21.24%), Megachile flaviceps (11.02%, 14.82%), Halictus sp. (11.62%, 17.03%) and Trigona iridipenis (5.61%, 4.40%) on Cassia flowers respectively

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Vinod K. Mattu, Arun Kumar SOLITARY BEES POLLINATION STUDIES ON CASSIA FISTULA PLANT IN HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 5, Issue : 6 JUNE 2016

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