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Role of Insects in Pollination of Mango Trees

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Biological Sci., Volume 5, Issue (1), Pages 64-67, January,10 (2016)

Abstract

The insects are the most dominant and important animals on the earth and affects the human life directly or indirectly. They are beneficiary (pollinators, biocontrollers, as food, in sericulture, in apiculture and in lac culture etc.) as well as harmful (pests of crops, wood, stored grains etc.). Many plants are depends on insects for pollination, mango tree are pollinated most predominantly insects, like numerous insects of the orders Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. Pollen-grains have been observed adhering to the bodies of many species belonging to these orders. On the basis of different studies, it is concluded that majority of pollinators belong to order Hymenoptera. Among Hymenopterans insects, different species of honey bee are the most efficient flower visiting insect. Some studies have suggested that insects of order Diptera are the dominant pollinators.

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