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Friday, June 12, 2009

Lady Part 3

Today, our ladybird buddy is the Maculate ladybird.
Harmonia octamaculata (Maculate ladybird)

(a) (b)
Maculate ladybird is another species that can be found in lowland areas in Malaysia. This ladybird is pretty large and it feeds on aphids, pysllids, hoppers and probably whiteflies. It is rare to find this species in vegetable garden but easily can be detected on goosegrass (Eleusine indica with ragi aphid) or in paddy field. I only found a small number of this ladybird in chili plants but the last time I went to paddy field, I managed to catch a large number of them. (a) form is the typical for this species but sometimes it exhibits variation in its spots (b).


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