Yellow-crescent blister beetle
The yellow-crescent blister beetle is a beetle from Texas and Mexico. Its name tells you its secret: its body makes a special juice that can give your skin blisters. Birds and other animals learn to leave it alone.
How big is it?
How long is it?
How big is Yellow-crescent blister beetle compared to YOU?
Just maths in your browser. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It grows to about 2 centimetres long.
All blister beetles make the same blistering juice, called cantharidin.
It belongs to a big family of beetles that are all called blister beetles.
Most asked questions about Yellow-crescent blister beetle
?Is the yellow-crescent blister beetle dangerous?
It does not bite or sting, but the juice from its body can make blisters on your skin. Look at it, but do not pick it up.
?Where does the yellow-crescent blister beetle live?
In the United States, mostly in Texas, and in Mexico.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pyrota insulata
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Meloidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Meloidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Pyrota insulata (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 Meghan Cassidy. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
If we got something wrong, sorry, we are bug fans, not a science journal. Tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it.
Bug Wiki honey jar For grown-ups: Bug Wiki is free, with no ads and no tracking. A small tip helps keep it online.Leave a tip
Stag beetle
Hercules beetle
Common glow-worm
Goliath beetle
Cockchafer
Mealworm beetle
New Forest burnet
The spectacle
Fire-flag plume moth
Garden tortrix
Three-cornered alfalfa hopper
White-spotted groundbug