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Master Blister Beetle (Lytta magister)
Photo#9830
Copyright © 1993
john and jane balaban
Blister (?) Beetle -
Lytta magister
Puerto Blanco Trail, Organ Pipe Natl Monument, southwest, Arizona, USA
April 13, 1993
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Contributed by
john and jane balaban
on 16 January, 2005 - 12:49pm
Last updated 24 March, 2005 - 12:13pm
Blister beetles
These are blister beetles, probably Lytta magister. This may be a line of males pursuing a female.
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Eric R. Eaton
, 18 January, 2005 - 12:36pm