VIKASH KUMAR SANKHALA, N.L. DANGI, HEMANT SWAMI AND LEKHA

Studies on diversity of insect pollinators in sweet basil were carried out at Instructional Farm, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur. The insect pollinator diversity was recorded during the flowering period from 21/08/2017 to 29/10/2017 on sweet basil. The major insect pollinators belonged to 5 different orders: Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera that were observed during different hours of the day. The mean lepidopteran pollinators ranged from 1.50 to 24.83, whereas mean hymenopteran and dipteran pollinators ranged from 3.00 to 13.00 and from 0.33 to 3.17, respectively.