CMR blisterbeetle
Hycleus oculatus
Name means: “named after the Cape Mounted Riflemen, an old group of soldiers”
The CMR blister beetle is a beetle from southern Africa. It has a funny name: CMR stands for the Cape Mounted Riflemen, an old group of soldiers. It belongs to the blister beetles, which are best looked at and not touched.
Lives in
Only in southern Africa
Can it hurt you?
Better not touch
Like other blister beetles, it can let out a juice that makes blisters on your skin. Do not touch it. If it gets on your skin, wash it off and tell a grown-up.
What does it eat?
It eats plants, especially their flowers.
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)
CMR blisterbeetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its old scientific name was Mylabris oculata, and people called it the CMR bean beetle.
2
It lives only in southern Africa and nowhere else.
3
Blister beetles got their name because the juice from their body can make blisters on skin.
you asked
Most asked questions about CMR blisterbeetle
?Is the CMR blister beetle dangerous?
It can cause blisters if you touch it, so do not pick it up. Just look.
?Why is it called the CMR blister beetle?
CMR stands for the Cape Mounted Riflemen, an old group of soldiers in South Africa.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hycleus oculatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Meloidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Meloidae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- CMR bean beetle
Where the facts come from
- Hycleus oculatus (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 SAplants. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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