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Agriculture · Q108

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 108

Q108

Which of the following insects is an efficient pollinator?

A.
Apis cerana
B.
Syrphus sp.
C.
Bumble bee
Answer
D.
Hawk moth

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Bumble bee is an efficient pollinators.
The bumblebee is a more efficient pollinator at the individual level. It provides highly valued pollination services for a wide variety of crops and ranks as the most frequent single species of pollinator for crops worldwide.
Bumblebees are important pollinators of both crops and wildflowers. Bumblebees are increasingly cultured for agricultural use as pollinators, among other reasons because they can pollinate plants such as tomato in greenhouses by buzz pollination.