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Honeybees plays an important ecological role as pollinators of many plant species. Honeybees and their products are the basics for a multi-million dollar commercial industry around the world. They are major agricultural pollinators around the world and are keystone pollinators in the tropical ecosystem. Pollination has been considered as a crusial process to ecosystem functioning through the facilitation of both plant and animal diversity. The study site was selected in the crop land area in Kalaburagi district, Karnataka State, India. The observation was done in the Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) field and Onion ( Allium cepa) field at different time intervals, to record the pollination potential of Apis and non-Apis species by taking 10-15 minutes observation time. During the entire observation both Apis, non-Apis pollinators and other pollinators like butterflies and birds were also observed. Among all these pollinators the major pollinators in the sunflower field and onion field were non-Apis species.