author(s)
Sourav Basak and Swapan Kumar Mandal

abstract
The field experiments were conducted to record the insect pollinators of sunflower (variety: PAC-36) at Kalyani District Seed Farm (AB) of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya in Nadia district of West Bengal during 2016. Different species of insect pollinators visiting sunflower were collected and identified. The result revealed the presence of seven species of insects belonging to six genera in six families under four orders namely Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera on the flower heads of sunflower. These species included Apis mellifera L, Apis dorsata L, Megachile sp., Musca domestica, Sarcophaga sp., Danaus chrysippus and Cheilomenes sexmaculata.