Claim · model-written summary
Honey bees visited R lines more frequently than A lines.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuuse0 - Material
- 'R'e1
- Outcome
- visite1
- Direction
- more frequentlye1
- Comparator
- 'A' linese1
Not reportedGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Abundance and diurnal rhythms of various insect visitors on 'A' and 'R' lines were studied in hybrid seed production field of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) for two years at Hisar, India”
e1“Honey bees tends to visit 'R' than 'A' lines more frequently”
Title
Gurinder Singh; R. K. Kashyap; B. S. Dahiya Seed Science and Technology 2000
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Insects from 41 genera of 23 families in six orders visited the capitula of A and R sunflower lines.
- Observation Honey bees made up 42.2% of the total insects visiting the sunflower capitula.
- Observation Bee activity on sunflower capitula was highest at 06h00 and 18h00, followed by 10h00.
- Observation Natural populations of Megachile cephalotes and Xylocopa fenestrata were relatively low in abundance on sunflower.