Green blister beetle
The green blister beetle is a blister beetle from western North America. It loves flowers and munches on them in mountains and dry places. Blister beetles have a body juice that can make a sore bubble on your skin, so this is a beetle to look at, not hold.
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Fun facts
It was first described in 1851 by an American beetle expert, John Lawrence LeConte.
It belongs to a group of close cousins that live almost only in California. It is one of the few that also live outside California.
It has been found in mountains and also in a desert park in California.
It often sits on poppy flowers and on ceanothus bushes.
Most asked questions about Green blister beetle
?What does the green blister beetle eat?
Flowers, such as California poppies, wallflowers and ceanothus.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lytta stygica
- Named by
- LeConte, 1851
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Meloidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Meloidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Lytta stygica (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Rachel Allingham. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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