THE ROLES OF WILD BEES IN AGRICULTURE


Dikmen F., Özenirler Ç., Güler Y.

HONEYBEES, PLANTS AND HEALTH, Mine KOÇYİĞİT,Ebubekir İZOL,Yusuf Kenan HASPOLAT, Editör, Orient Publications, Ankara, ss.76-84, 2023

  • Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Yayınevi: Orient Publications
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Ankara
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.76-84
  • Editörler: Mine KOÇYİĞİT,Ebubekir İZOL,Yusuf Kenan HASPOLAT, Editör
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

There are around 370.000 plant species in the world and approximately 300 thousands of this consists of angiosperms. Angiosperms, so called flowering plants, provide many direct or indirect contributions to human life. Such interaction, however, dependent on the reproduction of plants and therefore pollination service. Cross-pollination occurs in approximately 85% of flowering plants. Although there are many pollinator species, insects among them and especially bees are the best-known pollinators of the world. 87 out of 115 products that are widely produced in agriculture are dependent on pollinators. Türkiye has a very different geography that surrounded by the seas and changing elevations that significantly increasing from west to east. According to the available data, the number of plant taxa in Türkiye is approximately 12,000 and this number is almost equal to the number of plant species in the entire European continent. Without a doubt, these accounts are similar for pollinator species as well. The most important group of pollinators are considered to be the bees and almost 10% of the number of known bee species in the world are found in Türkiye. Among these bees, honey bees (Apis mellifera) and bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) are the two famous species that used as managed pollinators in agriculture in Türkiye. Although there are more than 60 agriculturally produced plants in Türkiye, there are limited scientific studies on the pollination of entomophilous species in them.