Journal of Ecology of Health & Environment
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Journal

Journal of Ecology of Health & Environment


Volume
& Issue

Volume 5, Issue 1


Published
on

January 1, 2017


Pages

35-40


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Article

Survey of the Most Common Insect Species on Some Foraging Crops of Honeybees in Dakhla Oasis, New Valley Governorate, Egypt

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Authors

Mahmoud S. O. Mabrouk Affiliation:
Bee keeping Res. Dept. Plant Protection Res. Institute, A.R. C., Egypt
and Mohamed Abdel - Moez Mahbob* Affiliation:
Department of Zoology & Entomology, Faculty of Science, New Valley Branch, Assiut University, New Valley, Egypt


Abstract

When studying the presence of beneficial insects and harmful on each alfalfa, Egyptian clover and faba been fields at the New Valley Governorate, Egypt, it turned out to include 46 species belonging to 33 family that follow 9 orders divided in to three groups (pests – natural enemies – pollinators). The study result also showed that the largest number of species of insects recorded on the crop fields under study belong to the order Hymenoptera where 19 species belonging 12 families. On the other hand, a total of pollinators has ranked first in the number of insect species that have been counted during the experimental crops in this study, and the main pollinators of those crops in Dakhla Oasis, New Valley Governorate, were honeybees.


Keywords

Honeybees, alfalfa, faba been, pests, pollinators


Citation

Mabrouk, M. S. O. & Mahbob, M. A. -. M. (2017). Survey of the most common insect species on some foraging crops of honeybees in dakhla oasis, new valley governorate, egypt. Journal of Ecology of Health & Environment, 5(1), 35–40. https://doi.org/10.18576/jehe/050105

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