More snippets on the Yellow Ladybird "illeis koebelei"

Yet another 2 photographs of a spotless yellow ladybird at our "Ginger" plant... Taken on 26th February 2012...





It was quite a challenge trying to take a snippet of it close-up becox the location it was at was almost out of reach. The spotless yellow ladybird was camera-shy & was crawling towards a hiding place where it could not be easily seen...

Postscript:  My plants are definitely in a bad shape as you could see from the spotty appearance of the leaves featured in these photographs.  They were down on fungal infection which is why I guess it attracted these yellow ladybirds.  However, I've difficulties obtaining an effective fungicide from the nurseries here in Singapore.

More on the Yellow ladybird "illeis koebelei"

After consulting the owner for the following website (Everything on Ladybug), he had kindly advised me that this particular breed of ladybird is known as illeis koebelei.
http://www.everything-ladybug.com/ladybug-pest-control.html

This breed of spotless yellow ladybird is a plant-friendly insect that thrives on cleaning up mildew & fungus attacking plants.

As such, we were more than happy to have it become a permanent resident of our plants. However, we don't see it nowadays. We are hoping to see it coming back to our plants & welcomes it making our plants its home & where possible, breeding there.

I recalled seeing this strange looking chap crawling around my plants a month ago... it moved really fast & I had made several attempts to catch hold of it but was unsuccessful. Now I realised that it might be the larvae or baby of the spotless yellow ladybird.


Disclaimer: I do not own the photograph of the larvae for the illeis koebelei uploaded as above. Kindly give the photo credits to the owner of the following website: http://gaga.biodiv.tw/new23/s7-26.htm . Thank you.
While I was watering my plants recently, I came across another 3 ladybirds loitering around my plants...

By the time I fetched my camera, the other 2 were no longer in sight & the other chap has flown towards another plant in the same pot. However, I have managed to take some photographs of it before it flew off to another location.

Yellow Ladybird visits Again!

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

I've mentioned in my preceding posts in this thread that I had chased away a yellow spotless ladybird, not realising that it was supposed to be good for my plants as ladybirds were said to eat up pests such as aphids & mealy bugs.

After leaving our guests on a flowering shrub that was 2 blocks away from our flat during weekends, we were surprised by the presence of yet another yellow spotless ladybird.

I had no idea if it was the same chap that we removed over weekends but anyway, I have decided to leave it untouched & let this ladybird be our guest since we've plenty of room here with our "Ginger" plants.

I had also taken the valuable opportunity to take a few photographs of our guest... becox it looked so loveable & cute! Don't you agree?



Isn't this spotless yellow ladybird cute-looking? It looks "kawaii"...



And here's another "kawaii" shot of our guest. The yellow wings looked so polished & glossy.

Doesn't the ladybird remind us of a yellow Volkswagen Beetle?

Isn't it just adorable? hahahaha




However, I did wonder if such a breed of ladybird is supposed to be beneficial to plants or are they leaf eaters as some of the breeds are?

Anyways, I will have to be on a look out to see if my plants had been attacked.

But meanwhile, please enjoy photographs of these cuuuuuuuuuuute ladybird.

A new visitor : Yellow Ladybird

Towards this early evening, I was surprised to see a yellow bug which clung onto one of my red "corns".

I took it off carefully & was told by my hubby that it was a lady bug which was said to be beneficial to all plants. Lady bugs were beneficial insects who helped in getting rid of pests such as aphids. By eating them of course.

However, out of ignorance, I brought the lady bug down to the ground floor & left it onto a flowering shrub as I didn't believe that it was a lady bug since it was yellow & not red with black pokka dots as typically depicted in cartoons or photographs.

I almost kicked myself when the search engines on the internet has confirmed that it was indeed a precious yellow lady bug! I've just sent off a good insect that would benefit my plants!

Ain't I stupid?

Right now, I could only be hopeful that my plants would be a future resting place for more lady bugs in the near future.

And the worse part was, I didn't even take a photograph of the yellow lady bug.

This was how my yellow lady bug looked like...

I think I must be crazy to chase away such a precious insect whose doing good to my ginger plants. *sob* Let's just hope that other lady bugs would find their way to my plants.

The story of my "tree" musketeers - 10th February 2012

Photographs that were taken on 10th February 2012:

The story of my "tree" musketeers - 9th February 2012

Photographs of my "Ginger" plants that were taken on 9th February 2012:

Outcome of a single application of IJO's Organic Worm Tea

After a single dose of ijo's worm tea, this is the outcome of my plants:

Even after I stopped watering the plants with worm tea, I did notice that the plants were blooming again with just watering them with tap water.

I had a sneaky suspicion that becox the N-component (Nitrogen) has been higher in percentage than the P-content (Phosporous, which is essential to promote flowering), the plants were growing vigorously with green leaves & new baby shoots at the expense of blooming.

After I stopped watering the plants with worm tea for the time being, my "Ginger" plants had been blooming consecutively for days when they had been exposted to an abundance of strong morning sun.

The following photographs were taken on 7th February 2012: