Increasing attention to pollinators and their role in providing ecosystem services has revealed a paucity of studies on long-term population trends of most insect pollinators in many parts of the world. Because targeted monitoring programs are resource intensive and unlikely to be performed on most insect pollinators, we took advantage of existing collection records to examine long-term trends ...

Background: Mustard is an oil seed crop and most oilseed crops are cross pollinated. A substantial increase in production requires adequate pollination. Rapeseed mustard both self-pollinated cross-pollinated plants. Brown sarson a pollinated whose reliant on honeybees wild insect pollinators. Methods: All parameters were carefully monitored during 2019-2021 growing year. blooming was visited by...

Abstract Rapid urbanization is among the factors that decrease insect diversity. However, by offering suitable habitats, green roofs could lessen this adverse effect. Certain factors, like a nearby public garden, be useful predictor variables to analyze what extent can support communities. The study aimed measure diversity on intensive located near gardens and more isolated roofs, within an urb...

Grasses are traditionally considered as wind pollinated, however, field observations confirmed frequent insect visits to grass flowers, suggesting insect pollination. Fruit and seed predators inflict heavy losses to cereals and millets during their growth, maturation and storage. The actual factors guiding insects and predators to grass flowers, fruits and seeds are not clear. Here, we report a...

Camelina and pennycress are two annual oil-producing plant species that have recently gained attention as biofuel feedstock crops. Prior to commercial production, information on their breeding and pollination system is essential to ensure sustainable management. We conducted pollination experiments and observed flower visitors in an experimental double-cropping system in southern Germany. We fo...

BACKGROUND Honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) are the most important pollinators of many agricultural crops worldwide and are a key test species used in the tiered safety assessment of genetically engineered insect-resistant crops. There is concern that widespread planting of these transgenic crops could harm honey bee populations. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We conducted a meta-analysis of 25...

Lupinus mutabilis Sweet is an Andean protein crop with agro-economic potential. However, it characterized by low yields and phenotypic plasticity related to environmental conditions when cultivated in different locations Europe. Current research objective was evaluate L. agro-morphological performance two Greece record its pollinators, since these can contribute optimization of performance. For...

Animal pollinators are vital for the reproduction of ~90% flowering plants. However, many these pollinating species experiencing declines globally, making effective pollinator monitoring methods more important than ever before. Pollinators can leave DNA on flowers they visit, and metabarcoding environmental (eDNA) traces provides an opportunity to detect presence flower visitors. Our study, col...

Many recent studies have suggested that the majority of animal-pollinated plants have a higher diversity of pollinators than that expected according to their pollination syndrome. This broad generalization, often based on pollination web data, has been challenged by the fact that some floral visitors recorded in pollination webs are ineffective pollinators. To contribute to this debate, and to ...