Economic importance and mass production of lady bird beetle

1. Economics importance & mass
production of Lady bird beetle

2. Submitted by:
Name : Limbachiya Milind
Reg. No. : 3010716024
Sub.: Cr.Prot.8.3 : Bio-control Agencies and Bio-
pesticides
• Submitted to :
• Dr. J.J. Patel Sir

3. Lady bird beetle
Scientific name : Coccinella magnifica
Kingdom : Animalia
Phylum : Arthropods
Class : Insecta
Order : Coleoptera
Sub order : Polyphaga
Super family : Cucujoidea
Family : Coccinllidae

4. Types of lady bird beetle
• 1.Two spotted LBB : Adalia bipunctata
• 2.Twice stabbed LBB : Chilocurus stigma
• 3.Seven spotted LBB : Coccinella septempunctata
• 4.Pink spot LBB : Coleomegilla muculata
• 5.Mealy bug destroyer LBB : Cryptolaemus
montrouzieri
• 6.Multicolored LBB : Harmonia axyridis
• 7.Convergent LBB : Hippodamia convergens
• 8.Spider mid destroyer LBB : Stethorus spp

5. Two spotted LBB Twice stabbed LBB
Seven spotted LBB Pink spot LBB

6. Spider mid destroyer LBBConvergent LBB
Multicolored LBBMealy bug destroyer LBB

7. Economic important of LBB
• Ladybugs are a beneficial bugs which helps rid an
area of crop-damaging aphids, mealy bugs and other
destructive insects pests.
• The adults ladybugs feed on theses insects. They also
lay their eggs among the aphids or other prey so the
emerging larvae can feed on the insects , too.
• Most ladybugs voraciously consume plant-eating
insects, such as aphids, and in doing so they help to
protect crop.
• Ladybugs lay hundreds of eggs in the colonies of
aphids and other plant-eating pests. When they hatch,
the LBB larvae immediately begin to feed.

8. • Ladybugs are considered a beneficial insects to man
because they eat many bugs that are known to eat
plants and destroy crops.
• The blood of ladybugs is yellow and has a very strong
smell that act as a repllent to pedators.
• Beetles are value to humans in many way. They are
prominent decomposers, especially in forests. As
predators , they reduce populations of problem
insects, especially caterpillars. LBB is widely known
to be important predators of aphids, and can be
purchased commercially for his purpose.

9. • Most species of LBB are considered beneficial
bacause they are predators of Homoptera or Acarina,
many of which are considered to be pests.
• One type of biological control is thus called
manipulative biological control (of which a subset is
conservation biological control).
• A second type of biological control is augmentative
biological control
• A third type of biological control is classical or
inoculative biological control.

10. • The only time they are considered to be “pests” to
people is in the fall when the weather gets cooler, and
the Asian lady beetles enter homes and other
buildings in large numbers in search of a warm place
to overwinter.
• Vacuuming these beetles and discarding the bag may
be the most effective method of removing these
insects from your home. Remember , we don’t want
to remove them from fields , orchards or gardens
since they are so beneficial.

11. Mass production methodology of LBB
1.] Introduction:
• 1.Different types of pests are found in nature affecting life
and yield of nature and cultivated crops of Agro-forestry.
• 2They hamper and destroy standing and stored food
reserves in every part of world.
• 3.In many studies it is known that Coccinella
septempunctata commonly called LBB is a capable
predators and can be used for the biological control of T
tabaci & T vaporariorum in greenhouse.
• 4.The insects predator may commit to reproduction to
varying degree depending of the nature of the prey the
consume.
• 5.To be successful the CSL searching strategy pre-supposes
a high capacity to meet variation , plus a capacity for
learning.

12. 2.] Materials :
1.Rearings eggs 6.Sugar syrup
2.Disposable petri dishes 7.Honey syrup
3.Beakers 8.Cotton bolts
4.Camel hairbrush 9.Filter papers
5.Plain water 10.Thermometer

13. 3.] Methods
• 1. Adults and CSL were collected from the agriculture fields
and reared in Entomology laboratory.
• 2.The fields collected materials was sorted out in the lab
and pairs were selected for oviposition.
• 3.The selected pairs were kept in separate petridishes to get
the laboratory batches of eggs for single cohort off springs
to minimize the variation in the experiment.
• 4.Then beetles were reared on aphids. The experiment was
carried out in the laboratory under homogeneous condition.
• 5.The experiments was laid out according to complete
Randomized CRD with there replication and eight
treatment, the treatment means were analyzed using of
variance.

14. Natural diet:
• Brevicoryne brassicae.
• 1st & 2nd instars of Macrosiphon roseae.
• Alete of Macrosiphon roseae.
• Rhopalosiphum maidis.
• Rhopalosiphum maidis on filter paper surface.
Artificial diet:
• Honey syrup – was given with the help of cotton boll
every day to observe longevity & data was recorded daily.
• Sugar syrup – daily sugar syrup was given in cotton boll
the longevity on sugar syrup & data was recorded.
• Plain water- The boiling water in cotton boll was also
given to observe the longevity & data was recorded daily.

15. 4.] Concluding perspectives:
• 1.It is recommended by analyzing the experimental
results the LBB growth rate population size is
affected by type of food & temperature.
• 2.Fecundity & longevity parameter have coincidence
with egg lying capacity of LBB by the diet available.

16. • Thank you…….