1Department of Horticulture, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai625104, India
2Department of Seed Science and Technology, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai625104, India
Department of Agricultural Entomology, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai625104, India
*Email: ushateja@yahoo.com (corresponding author)
Online Published on 6 February, 2023.
This study on pollinator diversity and abundance of frequent floral visitors was conducted during on coriander during rabi 2019-20 in Lalapuram village of Kallikudi block, Madurai district. Coriander flowers were observed to be visited by 25 pollinators. Among the visitors, four species were hymenopterans belonging to Apis (16%) and six from Non-Apis spp. (24%) Four belonged to Lepidoptera and Diptera (16%), three from Hemiptera and Coleoptera (12%) and one from Araneae (4%). Among all these, Apis florea was the most dominant one among Apis spp. followed by Apis cerana indica and Tetragonula iridipennis. The foraging activity and Shannon-Weiner’s diversity index (2.78) was observed to be maximum during 1000-1200 hrs.
Coriander, Pollinator diversity, Abundance, Apis florea, A. cerana indica, Tetragonula iridipennis, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Shannon-Wiener index, Foraging
