blister beetle in English

noun
1
a beetle that, when alarmed or crushed, gives off a substance that causes blisters. The larvae are typically parasites of other insects.
Because blister beetle larvae feed on grasshopper eggs, there is often an increase in areas of high grasshopper populations.
noun
    meloid

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1. Cantharides, or cantharidin, consists of the broken dried remains of the blister beetle (q.v.) Lytta vesicatoria

2. It now feeds on the honey stored by the bee and pupates and emerges as the adult blister beetle .

3. There are blue coloured blister beetle Epicauta actaea , metallic - green Epicauta tenuicollis and a somewhat larger brown Gnathospatha rouxi .

4. 18 'What a terrible place to live, ' muses amateur entomologist Niki Jumpei (Eiji Okada) as he scours a remote desert region for signs of a blister beetle.

5. In aphrodisiac These are, principally, Cantharides and yohimbine, both of which stimulate sexual arousal by irritating the urinary tract when excreted. Cantharides, or cantharidin, consists of the broken dried remains of the blister beetle (q.v.) Lytta vesicatoria

6. Blister beetle, (family Meloidae), any of approximately 2,500 species of Beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that secrete an irritating substance, cantharidin, which is collected mainly from Mylabris and the European species Lytta vesicatoria, commonly called Spanish fly.Cantharidin is used medically as a topical skin irritant to remove warts

7. ‘It's also called Cantharides and is a powder made from the ground-up bodies of a particular kind of blister beetle that's native to Spain and southern Europe.’ ‘These larvae feed on the Cantharides all winter, and, if in quantity, commit great havoc, leaving only the hard exterior portions untouched, such as the upper portion of the

8. ‘It's also called Cantharides and is a powder made from the ground-up bodies of a particular kind of blister beetle that's native to Spain and southern Europe.’ ‘These larvae feed on the Cantharides all winter, and, if in quantity, commit great havoc, leaving only the hard exterior portions untouched, such as the upper portion of the