He died in October 1986 from complications of eating blister beetles.

A few insects, including those known as blister beetles, can produce cantharidin.

They belong to the family Oedemeridae, which are commonly known as false blister beetles.

"Those are blister beetles," said Steven Allgeier, who advises home gardeners.

The false blister beetles and cardinal beetles also produce cantharidin.

Ingestion of blister beetles from infested hay causes similar serious toxic symptoms in animals.

Blister beetles are so poisonous that if a horse eats only a few of them, the horse may die!

I would, in fact, corner the market in Sudanese Blister Beetles.

Horses may be accidentally poisoned when fed bales of fodder with blister beetles in them.

The larvae of blister beetles don't do it, but, being parasites, they are glad that others do (particularly the bees).

"Everyone knows about Blister Beetles, sahib," he said.

Blister beetles were afflicting him, and horse leeches, and latrine snakes.

Blister beetles are hypermetamorphic, going through several larval stages, the first of which is typically a mobile triungulin.

This part of the valley has numerous cotton top cactus, blister beetles and cholla cactus.

"You know about Blister Beetles?"

Oedemerinae are a subfamily of the false blister beetles (family Oedemeridae), also known as pollen-feeding beetles.

Meloe (blister beetles)

Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810 (blister beetles)

Oedemeridae Latreille 1810 (false blister beetles)

Tenebrionoidea (formerly "Heteromera") (30 families including blister beetles and ant-like beetles)

Dr. Carrel suggests that rather than eating them, fire-colored beetles may instead be milking blister beetles for their cantharidin.

This is known as hypermetamorphosis; examples include the blister beetles (family Meloidae) and some rove beetles, particularly those of the genus Aleochara.

Blister beetles are beetles (Coleoptera) of the family Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin.

The family Oedemeridae is a cosmopolitan group of beetles commonly known as false blister beetles, though some recent authors have coined the name pollen-feeding beetles.

Mylabris is a genus of beetles in the family Meloidae.

In some species, the pupa may go through all four forms during its development, called hypermetamorphosis (for example, Meloidae).

Lydomorphus dusaulti is a species of beetle in family Meloidae.

Mylabris sennae is a species of beetle belonging to the Meloidae family.

It is now named Lytta vesicatioria and belongs to another family, Meloidae.

The Spanish fly is an emerald-green beetle in the family Meloidae, Lytta vesicatoria.

Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810 (blister beetles)

So are many insects such as beetles in the family Meloidae, that begin by eating animal food as larvae, but change to plant food when they mature.

In some species (for example, Meloidae), the male climbs onto the dorsum of the female and strokes his antennae on her head, palps, and antennae.

Reflexive bleeding occurs in specific parts of the body; for example, the beetle families Coccinellidae (ladybugs) and Meloidae bleed from the knee joints.

The first instar larva in Meloidae has three claws on each foot, and is therefore called a triungulin (plural triungula), but otherwise they are typical planidia.

Blister beetles are beetles (Coleoptera) of the family Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin.

Coleoptera: many beetles belonging to the families Cerambycidae, Scarabaeidae, Meloidae, Elateridae, and Tenebrionidae.

Blister beetle dermatitis is a cutaneous condition that occurs after contact with any of several types of beetles, including those from the Meloidae and Oedemeridae families.

The Entomology Research Museum contains more than three million insect specimens, with particular strengths in Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Aphelinidae, Thysanoptera and Meloidae.

Going beyond "complete metamorphosis", however, some beetles, such as typical members of the families Meloidae and Rhipiphoridae, undergo hypermetamorphosis in which the first instar takes the form of a triungulin.

This article was followed by another 79, in which he described another 145 taxa, mostly Pardo Alcaide became a world authority in families and Melyridae Meloidae- Malachiinae .

They are also sometimes called "blister beetle", although rove beetles such as P. melampus are in a different Family (biology) family (Staphylinidae) than the blister beetle family Meloidae.

They occur in the orders Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, and Diptera; specifically the beetle families Meloidae and Ripiphoridae, the fly family Acroceridae, and the parasitic wasp families Eucharitidae and Perilampidae.

An example of studies of this type is Richard B. Selander's Bionomics, Systematics and Phylogeny of Lytta, a Genus of Blister Beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae), Illinois Biological Monographs: number 28, 1960.

Bombyliidae, Therevidae, Asilidae), Meloidae, Thysanoptera, Staphylinidae, Melyridae, Coccinellidae, Sciomyzidae, Tephritidae, Miridae, Aphididae, Coccoidea, and various selected genera (e.g., the scarab genera Pleocoma and Chrysina).

Hypermetamorphosis usually occurs as an adaptation of the ontogeny of certain parasitoid insects, notably the beetle families Meloidae and Ripiphoridae, the fly family Acroceridae, certain members of the Bombyliidae, the parasitic wasp family Eucharitidae, and the order Strepsiptera.

These odd insects have been regarded as related to the beetle families Rhipiphoridae and Meloidae, with which they share first-instar larvae that are active, host-seeking triungulins and later-instar larvae that are endoparasites of other insects, or the sister group of beetles, or more distantly related to insects.