Indian Journal of Horticulture
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 78
  • Issue: 1

Bumble bee (Bombus haemorrhoidalis Smith) -a potential pollinator in bell pepper under protected cultivation

  • Author:
  • Shabnam Thakur, Harish Kumar Sharma2, Kiran Rana2, Meena Thakur2, Manish Kumar Sharma3, Rohit Kumar Nayak2
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 84 to 87

2Department of Entomology, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni

3Department of Seed Science and Technology, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni

Department of Entomology, College of Horticulture, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan-173230 (Himachal Pradesh), India

*Corresponding author's E-mail: shabnamthakur2715@gmail.com

Online published on 10 May, 2021.

Abstract

The laboratory reared bumble bee (B. haemorrhoidalis Smith) queens used for pollination resulted in increase in number of fruits per plant (3.77%), fruit weight (24.60%), fruit length (13.51%), fruit breadth (21.52%), healthy fruits (23.84%), seed number (113.64%), 1000 seed weight (g) (5.44%) and fruit yield per (89.42%) in bell pepper over control suggesting that bumble bee pollination is effective in improving bell pepper fruit yield and quality.

Keywords

B. haemorrhoidalis, Bell pepper, Pollination, Field, Protected cultivation