The bee pollinator decline has raised serious concerns on its impact on productivity of ecosystems. The information on Indian bees is so scanty. Little attempt has been made to understand the possible changes in bee pollinator diversity even at a local or regional scale. The task of compiling a faunal list of bees is challenging due to a virtual lack of taxonomic literature on south-Asian bees. There are also methodological problems of sampling and surveying for bees in different habitats. This study was therefore taken up as a pilot study to document the diversity of bees in a...

Groundnut, Arachis hypogaea L., is an important legume plant originated in the Southern Bolivia/North-west Argentina region in South America and is presently cultivated in 108 countries of the world. Production is constrained due to insect pests both in field and storage. More than 350 species of insects infest the crop in different parts of the world. Among the pests, Caryedon serratus (Oliver) is one of the major and important storage insect species causing around 20 per cent damage to groundnut and prevalent in Asia, Greece, France, Italy and the north and west coasts of Africa. The...