author(s)
DN Kambrekar, UK Hulihalli, Prashant K Natikar, Nisarga HS and Kavita Reddy

abstract
An investigation was carried out at Main Agricultural Research Station (MARS), University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad to study the diversity of pollinators visiting buckwheat during kharif 2018. The pollinator fauna of buckwheat comprised of a total of twelve insect species belonging to four insect orders viz., Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera. Among these, Hymenoptera was the most dominant pollinator group with a maximum of 61.49 per cent proportion followed by Diptera (25.00%), Lepidoptera (12.16%) and Hemiptera (1.35%). The most abundant pollinator among the hymenopterans was the little bee, Apis florea Fabricius which recorded 28.38 per cent proportion followed by Apis cerana Fabricius and Apis dorsata Fabricius with 20.27 and 12.84 per cent proportion, respectively. Four species each of dipterans viz., Musca sp., Episyrphus sp., Lucilia sp. and Sarcophaga sp. and lepidopterans viz., Hypolimnas bolina Linnaeus, Danaus chrysippus Linnaeus and Euchrysops cnejus Fabricius and Helicoverpa armigera Hubner were also found visiting buckwheat flowers.