Showing posts with label ladybird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ladybird. Show all posts
23 Aug 2008
6 Aug 2008
Ladybird: 14-Spot, Finally!
Yeehaww! This is 14-spot ladybird! Been aiming them for ages. I noticed that the 12-spotters don't mix with 14-spotters. The 12-spotters hang around the eggplants while the latter, the long bean plants. My mom planted these two plants opposite each other.
Anyway, caught these two making out! Lol!
Haha, I think I know why they don't mix. Maybe they want to preserve their spots. Can you imagine what the spots would be like if 12-spotter and 14-spotter were together?
Anyway, caught these two making out! Lol!
Haha, I think I know why they don't mix. Maybe they want to preserve their spots. Can you imagine what the spots would be like if 12-spotter and 14-spotter were together?
18 Jul 2008
Ladybird: 10-Spot (again!)
At first I thought this was a 14-spot ladybird (lol, I counted the spots) but after researching the net, the 10-spot ladybird is very variable in appearance and may have fewer or more than 10 spots. The 14-spot has a different type of spot.
Yehhaaww! Managed to capture the ladybird clearly despite my poor eyesight. I'm still using the reverse lens effect.
30 Jun 2008
Ladybird: 10-Spot
Gosh, this is the time that I wish I have the Micro Nikkor 105mm! Using reverse lens really needs a good eye sight. I better hurry and do my new pair of glasses.
5 Jun 2008
Ladybird: Asian Lady Beetle
Am adding two more labels: ladybird and birds.
Asian lady beetle
This one is a photo of the Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis). It was perching happily making rounds from one leaf to another when I saw her. I snapped nearly hundred shots! Got more than 20 good ones and the above shot is my favourite.
The Asian lady beetle is also known as the Multicolored Asian lady beetle or Harlequin lady beetle (because their tendency to vary in color from orange to yellow to even black). They are very beneficial, being natural enemies of many insects, especially aphids and other critters that damage plants by feeding on their sap. A single ladybug can consume vast quantities of aphids in its lifetime, perhaps as many as 5,000 or more.
This one has no spot. This is the only good shot out of 25.
Asian lady beetle
This one is a photo of the Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis). It was perching happily making rounds from one leaf to another when I saw her. I snapped nearly hundred shots! Got more than 20 good ones and the above shot is my favourite.
The Asian lady beetle is also known as the Multicolored Asian lady beetle or Harlequin lady beetle (because their tendency to vary in color from orange to yellow to even black). They are very beneficial, being natural enemies of many insects, especially aphids and other critters that damage plants by feeding on their sap. A single ladybug can consume vast quantities of aphids in its lifetime, perhaps as many as 5,000 or more.
This one has no spot. This is the only good shot out of 25.
