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These beetles make a defensive secretion of a blistering agent,
This beetle (about 1cm long) was a very frequent pollinator of numerous species ...
Medium-sized with a body length of 13mm. Head, pronotum, elytra, legs and the ...
Belongs to family - Meloidae . It has defense sceretion of a blistering agent ...
This brightly-colored beetle is often seen in cattle pastures, but can also be ...
About one centimeter long (1/2 inch). Body is red with black legs, antennae and ...
“CMR” refers to the Cape Mounted Rifle Corps, a police force in the old Cape ...
Black and red bug spotted in the evening in Gal Oya, Sri Lanka.
The Spanish fly is an emerald-green beetle in the family Meloidae, Lytta ...
droplets of hemolymph from their joints. The oily substance contains
Oil beetle feasting on Jack in the Pulpit fruit. I think this is either Meloe ...
Cantharidin is a poisonous chemical that ...
About 8-10mm in length. Soft bodied beetles with long legs. Their wings are ...
hemolymph from their joints when disturbed; this contains
substance of greenish color, by the end of their abdomen, which contains ...
other species have been the sources from which a chemical compound called ...
A massif black goose, mainly black with various amount of white on the body, ...
because like most Meloids, they can excrete toxic
