Striped blister beetle
The striped blister beetle is a slender black and yellow beetle that lives in eastern North America. It is a crop pest that can damage vegetable and field plants. Its body contains a poison that blisters skin and can kill livestock, so it should be left alone.1

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- Adults are 9 to 17 millimetres long, long and slender, with a hairy body.1
- The body is black and yellow.1
- It has two black spots on the head and two black stripes on the thorax (the middle body section).1
- It has two or three black stripes on each wing cover. Northern beetles have two stripes and southern beetles have three.1
- Adults often form swarms that travel together.1
Pozoi-indarra
Bere azala toxikoa da. Arriskutsua da ukitzea, miazkatzea edo jatea.
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This beetle is poisonous rather than venomous, as it does not bite or sting. It contains cantharidin, a toxic compound that causes blistering of the skin and mucous membranes. In horses, a dose of about one milligram per kilogram of body weight is toxic, and eating 30 to 50 beetles can be fatal. Symptoms include blisters and ulcers of the mouth, pawing, stretching, diarrhoea, and low blood calcium and magnesium.1
Zein arriskutsua da pertsonentzat?
Arriskua pertsonentzat: MingarriaBenetan min handia eman dezake, baina ia inoiz ez da larria.Cantharidin has been known to cause deaths, particularly of horses. Even two to five beetles can cause colic in horses, and hay containing crushed beetles can make animals ill. Cattle and sheep are less affected but can still show some symptoms. Frogs that eat these beetles keep the poison, so eating frog legs from beetle-fed frogs could cause poisoning, as little as 200 grams could contain a potentially fatal dose.1
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- Norbaitek jan badu edo jan ondoren sintomak baditu: deitu berehala zure larrialdi-zenbakira edo intoxikazio-zentrora.
Deitu beti lehenik zure larrialdi-zenbakira (112, 000, 911). Lehen sorospenei buruzko orientabide orokorra da hau, ez mediku-aholkua. Lehen sorospenen oinarriak
Egon seguru
- Ez ukitu, ez harrapatu eta ez zirikatu inoiz animalia basati bat, txikia izan arren, eta lo edo hilda dagoela badirudi ere.
- Utzi tartea. Bat aurkitzen baduzu, egon lasai, egin atzera poliki eta utzi bere bidetik joaten.
- Ukitu edo jan baduzu: ez igurtzi begiak edo ahoa, garbitu eskuak eta lortu mediku-laguntza.
Ez dabil zure atzetik. Pozoia ezerk jan ez dezan baino ez du. Seguru egoteari buruz gehiago
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Frogs can eat blister beetles without harm, but they store the poison in their tissues and mucus, so predators that eat the frogs can be poisoned.1
Its larvae live on grasshopper eggs, which they find and feed on.1
Some ecologists consider it one of the most problematic pest blister beetles in its range, because it feeds voraciously, damages fruit and forms swarms.1
The beetle changes its appearance as it develops. The newly hatched larva is whitish with long legs, and later becomes a reddish-brown grub with shorter legs.1
Predators include robber flies and birds such as the western meadowlark, eastern bluebird and scissor-tailed flycatcher.1
Pozoi-adituentzat
- Izen zientifikoa
- Epicauta vittata
- Taldea
- Beste animalia toxiko batzuk
- Familia
- Meloidae2
- Ordena
- Coleoptera
- Kontinenteak
- Ipar Amerika
- Kumeak
- The female lays eggs in masses of 100 to 200 in a chamber a few centimetres deep in the soil, and each egg is about 2 millimetres long. The eggs hatch within 16 days, and there are one or two generations per year.1
- Arriskua pertsonentzat
- 2 / 5: Mingarria3
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- Epicauta vittata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Epicauta vittata (iNaturalist): izenak eta sailkapena.
- Venom Wiki: arrisku-maila, ohiko tamaina eta abiadura-kalkulua geureak dira. Ikusi nola kalkulatzen ditugun: Nola baloratzen dugun arriskua.
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