author(s)
DN Kambrekar, Megha R Raikar, Shamrao Jahagirdar and Krishna Gudadur

abstract
An investigation was carried out at farmer’s field of Bijapur and Bagalkot district of Karnataka to study the pollinator fauna of pigeonpea. The pollinator diversity in Bijapur and Bagalkot district on pigeonpea constituted a total of 8 insect species. Among these Bijapur district recorded 86.92, 9.35 and 3.97 percent proportion of hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and diptera, pollinator orders, respectively. Whereas, Bagalkot district recorded, hymenoptera (85.71), Lepidoptera (11.43) and diptera (2.86) per cent proportion of pollinator orders. The insect belongs to order Hymenoptera were most abundant in both the districts. Of all the bees, Apis florea Fabricius and Megachilae sp. were most abundant with 26.17 and 22.48 per cent proportion of pollination in Bijapur and 25.71 and 22.86 per cent in Bagalkot district, respectively. The insect belonging to order Lepidoptera and Diptera were reported in very small numbers. The study revealed that, off all the pollinating groups, bees were most superior followed by lepidopterans and dipterans.