author(s)
Muhammad Tahir Rasheed, Mian Inayatullah, Bismillah Shah, Nazeer Ahmed, Ashraf Khan, Murad Ali, Saeed Ahmed, Khwaja Junaid, Muhammad Adnan, Zelle Huma

abstract
An Experiment was conducted during the year 2012 to evaluate the Relative abundance of insect pollinators on two cultivars of sunflower at Honey bee Research Institute, National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad i.e., Hysun-33 and SMH-0942. Honey bees were the dominant group of pollinators that constituted about 79.96 and 78.49% on cultivars Hysun-33 and SMH-0942 respectively. Among honey bees Apis mellifera dominant on both cultivars. Other insect pollinator shows low activity on sunflower.