Flowers and Beetles

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Tiger orchid that has the scientific name Grammatophillum scriptum can be found in the areas of Papua, Makassar, and East Nusa Tenggara (NTT). Tiger orchid plants have a characteristic with a size that is not too large.

Size sepalnya only 3 cm long only. While the color is pale greenish. For the color sepal and petalnya almost everything covered in brown. In tigrinium varieties, sepals and petal have large patches, dense, irregular, and brown.

This tiger orchid plant has a long flower stalk size and many flower buds. These tiger orchids include short-pseudo-bulbous orchids. Umbinya not covered by leaf upih and some of the leaves grow on top of umbisemu. This plant has a similar stature to cymbidium.

Tiger orchid is more in planting with crates and in hanging. However, it does not mean tiger orchids can not be attached to trees. This orchid can be attached to a tree branch. While the media used to plant orchid plants this tiger can use fern or wood charcoal as a medium of planting.

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The coccinella arcuata or the Harmonia octomaculata beetle or coccinella beetle has a beautiful, striking red color with a black totol motif.

But who knows the beauty of the beetle, it turns out that the beetle of the chef includes a small aphid-sucking aphid insects such as aphid Aphididae, Margarodidae, Pseudococcidae, Psyllidae, Eriococcidae and even aphid aphid (Nilaparvata lugens).

During this time, the koksi beetle is known as an environmentally friendly insect that is able to help farmers in overcoming the attack of aphids. During his life, a koksi beetle can prey up to 1000 small insects.

Koksi beetles include the order of coleoptera (beetles) that metamorphosed perfectly from the egg, larval, cocoon to adult phases. Female beetles can spawn 20-30 eggs per day or 1000 eggs in 40-50 days. Koksi beetle larvae food is the same as its parent food.

At the time of the explosion of aphis plant pests, often also found a lot of koksi beetle. This makes the farmers think that the beetle koksi including pests that attack rice. Whereas the koksi beetle is a predator of aphis plant pests. As a result, many dead coconut beetles are sprayed, while pests of aphis is more resistant to insecticides.

Koksi beetle populations can be increased by planting yellow flowering plants around the land pertanain, such as sunflower, marigold or mitir. Usually also beetle koksi found in yellow flowering plants are widely planted farmers in Indonesia, such as Cucurbitaceace cucumber, gambas, pumpkin and pariah, Leguminosae beans long, green beans.