Blister Beetles
by Ramabhadran Thirupattur
Title
Blister Beetles
Artist
Ramabhadran Thirupattur
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
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Blister beetles are beetles of the family Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin. About 7,500 species are known worldwide. Many are conspicuous and some are aposematically colored, announcing their toxicity
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October 14th, 2017
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