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Striped blister beetle

Epicauta vittata

Davart il num: The name 'blister beetle' refers to the blisters its poison causes on skin.1

Fa mo malBetg tutgarQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.

Auters animals tossics

Tissi en sia pelMangia: PlantasTossic, betg tissientà

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

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

Tossic u tissientà? Animals tissientads injecteschan tissi cun ina morsa u ina piztgada. Animals tossics èn nuschaivels, sch'ins als tutga u als mangia. Quest qua è tossic.

Viva en

Eastern North America, including eastern Canada and the eastern United States1

America dal Nord

Pagina iniziala

It feeds on crop plants on farms and in gardens, where it is considered an agricultural pest. Adults are most active in the morning and late afternoon and shelter during the heat of midday.1

Lunghezza

9 mm fin 1,7 cm (0,4 in fin 0,7 in)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

Adults feed on plants, with a preference for solanaceous plants such as potato and tomato, and also for amaranths. The larvae feed on grasshopper egg pods.1

Foto da Striped blister beetle — Striped blister beetle. Foto: Will Kuhn. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

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

Forza tossica

Tissi en sia pel

Sia pel è tossica. Igl è privlus d'al tutgar, d'al litgar u d'al mangiar.

Tge fa sia substanza tossica?

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

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

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

Sch'insatgi l'ha tutgà u mangià

Sch'insatgi l'ha mangià u ha sintoms suenter l'avair mangià: clama immediat tes numer d'urgenza u il center toxicologic.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sche ti l'has tutgà u mangià: na sfruscha betg ils egls u la bucca, lava ils mauns e tschertga agid medicinal.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. Ses tissi è mo là, per che nagin na al mangia. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

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Quant svelt è el?

Ina tartaruga circa 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Striped blister beetle circa 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)

Ina persuna che va a pe circa 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

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

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Epicauta vittata
Gruppa: Auters animals tossics
Famiglia: Meloidae2
Urden: Coleoptera
Continents: America dal Nord
Poppins: 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
Privel per umans: 2 / 5: Dolurus3

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