Ladybird

Description:

The two Ladybirds, shown above, were spotted on the same leaf which had fallen from a Mango Tree. The small Ladybird was identified, fairly easily, as Heteroneda billardieri, and became the subject of https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/75...... but I have not been able to identify the much bigger Ladybird, the subject of this spotting.

Habitat:

As mentioned above, the ladybirds were on a leaf which fell to the ground from a Mango Tree (Mangifera indica) in the rice mill backyard. This tree was thought to have been more than 100 years old, at the time of this spotting in 2015. Unfortunately, it is no longer there as it was blown down during a typhoon in 2017.