About the Authors

Saboor Ahmad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Entomology, Faculty of Crop and Food Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah (PMAS) Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Institute of Apicultural Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Khalid Ali Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shamshadahmeduca@gmail.com (SAK); khalidtalpur@hotmail.com (KAK)

Affiliations Research Centre for Advance Material Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Unit of Bee Research and Honey Production, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Biology Department, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Shahmshad Ahmed Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shamshadahmeduca@gmail.com (SAK); khalidtalpur@hotmail.com (KAK)

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Faculty of Crop and Food Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah (PMAS) Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Hamed A. Ghramh

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Centre for Advance Material Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Unit of Bee Research and Honey Production, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Biology Department, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Aziz Gul

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.