Brassy blister beetle
Lytta aenea
Name means: “bronze, after the colour of its wing cases”
The brassy blister beetle is a shiny beetle with bronze-coloured wing cases. It belongs to the blister beetles. It visits flowers and munches on them.
Lives in
Eastern North America, from Texas to New England and west to the Great Plains
What does it eat?
It mostly eats flowers of the rose family. It also eats willow and hickory flowers and oak leaves.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Brassy blister beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its scientific name comes from its bronze colour.
2
Its favourite food is flowers from the rose family.
3
It sometimes nibbles oak leaves too.
you asked
Most asked questions about Brassy blister beetle
?What does the brassy blister beetle eat?
Mostly flowers of the rose family, plus willow and hickory flowers and oak leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lytta aenea
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Meloidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Meloidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Lytta aenea (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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