AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEY ON INSECTICIDES WHICH AFFECTS THE POLLINATORS

Insect pollinators play a vital role in the ecosystem. Pollinators visit different wild plants and crops for their feed. Recently the pollinators are under great threat and their reduction in population may lead to profound economic and environmental consequences. Here, we strongly insist that various anthropogenic activities – degradation of forest, pesticide and insecticide use, climate change. To try and understand the link between pesticide use on pollinator communities, and how this might impact on their population reduction or loss, we took a complementary approach of survey by preparing a questionnaire with 20 basic questions. The survey was taken in and around Coimbatore and Tirupur district to collect the information like the usage of nature of pesticides and insecticides. At times the synthetic pesticides may be directly or indirectly affecting the insects based on the nature of the chemicals. The outcome of the survey was about how the usage of certain insecticide affects the pollinators life cycle directly or indirectly. The pollinating insects were not targeted directly but as non- target species they are affected a lot. It is need of the hour to concentrate and conserve the pollinators as per the thought of the great scientist Albert Einstein: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years left to live.”