International Journal of Life Sciences International Peer Reviewed Open Access Refereed Journal Int. J. of Life Sciences, 2021; 9 (4):461-466 ISSN:2320-7817(p) | 2320-964X(o) Research Article Open Access © 2021 |IJLSCI www.ijlsci.in | 461 Pollen Analysis of Honey Collected from Hingoli District (Maharashtra) India. Nagarkar SS Department of Botany and Research Centre, Adarsh Education Society’s Arts, Commerce and Science College, Hingoli, MS, India Manuscript details: ABSTRACT Received: 28.10.2021 Accepted: 02.12.2021 Published: 31.12.2021 Cite this article as: Nagarkar SS (2021) Pollen Analysis of Honey Collected from Hingoli District (Maharashtra) India., Int. J. of Life Sciences, 9 (4):461-466. Available online on http://www.ijlsci.in ISSN: 2320-964X (Online) ISSN: 2320-7817 (Print) Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other thirdparty material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/ A pollen analysis of honey provides a basic information for identifying the origin of a honey in terms of locality and floral resources. This information may be used to develop analytical standards and contributing to quality control of a honey. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of pollen contents of honey samples was undertaken during the year 2017-2019. Moringa oleifera, Pongamia pinnata, Syzygium cumini, Tamarindus indica and Terminalia Sp. pollen types were dominantly represented in honey samples of the region. The other major pollen types found were Aegle marmelos, Albizia Sp., Bauhinia Sp., Brassica campestris, Cajanus cajan, Cassia siamea and Eucalyptus globulus. The honey samples collected from the region is found to be as multifloral showing a diverse pollen taxon. Keywords: Pollen analysis, Honey, Hingoli, Maharashtra. INTRODUCTION Pollen analysis studied under the branch Melissopalynology, which is valuable tool for the identification of the botanical and geographical origin of honey sample. These pollen analytical studies provide information of resources of bee. During evolution, a special relationship has been developed between the plants and the bees. The flower provides pollen and nectar as a food to visiting bees while the bees while wandering from flower to flower provide a vehicle for pollen transfer leading to pollination. Pollen is a major source of proteins, fatty substances, minerals and vitamins for the honey bees. Bees deliberately collect the pollen grains to fulfill their protein requirement and store them in pollen chambers in the hive (Bhattacharya et al, 2006). Furthermore, pollen provides proteins for bees required for building their body tissues especially during early embryonic growth (Agashe, 2006). Honey is regarded as an important food and medicine throughout the world. Honey bee utilizes certain natural raw materials, pollen and nectar from flowers of various plants and convert it into honey.