Caring for Pollinators - Bundesamt für Naturschutz

Hamm & Ssymank The pollinators buffet
Averrhoa carambola (Oxalidaceae)
Crop name: Starfruit, Carambola
Positive impact by animal pollination: great/essential
Origin: India, Malaysia
Main producers: Malaysia
Main pollinator and visitors: Bees (Hymenoptera)
Honey bees (Apis cerana); Stingless bees
(Trigona thoracia)
Flies (Diptera)
Photo: W. Barthlott/W. Rauh
Carica papaya (Caricaceae)
Crop name: Papaya
Positive impact by animal pollination: little
Origin: C America, S Mexico
Main producers: Brazil, Pantropics
Main pollinators and visitors: Bees (Hymenoptera)
Honey bees (Apis sp.)
Flies (Diptera)
Flowerflies (Syrphidae); Calliphoridae;
Tephritidae
Moths (Lepidoptera)
Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Sphingidae (Macroglossum trochilius, Herse
sp.); Noctuidae; Hesperiidae
Birds (Aves)
Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Photo: W. Barthlott/W. Rauh
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Photo: W. Barthlott/W. Rauh