Sang Predator (Kumbang Kepik)

The coccinella arcuata beetle or coccinella beetle or Harmonia octomaculatamam 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 bug-sucking aphid predator 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 assist 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 adulthood 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 explosion pests aphis, 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 pest of aphis is more resistant to insecticide.

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 that many farmers planted in Indonesia, such as Cucurbitaceace cucumber, gambas, pumpkin and pariah, Leguminosae beans long, green beans.