oil beetle
Meloe latin

In 2010, a colony of short-necked oil beetles was found on the island.

It is also known as the "short-necked oil beetle".

Devon hosts four oil beetle species, one of which has only recently been rediscovered.

The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.

Epicauta is a beetle genus from the family of oil beetles (Meloidae).

Images, information, identification guide, submit records to UK oil beetle survey.

Meloe proscarabaeus is a European oil beetle.

The blister beetle genus Meloe is a large, widespread group commonly referred to as oil beetles.

Nemognatha chrysomeloides is a species of oil beetle (Meloidae) from Central and South America.

Meloe brevicollis Panzer, 1793 - Short-necked Oil Beetle

Oil Beetles (Meloe), Bug Guide

Roman Snails, Heath Snail and a rare Oil Beetle Meloe rugosus are present.

All our UK wildlife sources are buzzing about beetles today as Buglife launches its Oil Beetle Hunt.

The short-winged blister beetle, or oil beetle, Meloe angusticollis, is a species of blister beetle, native to North America.

Meloe violaceus, the violet oil beetle, is a species of oil beetle belonging to the family Meloidae subfamily Meloinae.

The site supports a large population of the Marsh Fritillary butterfly, and it is also one of the few sites in Britain at which the Oil Beetle Meloe rugosus occurs.

They are known as "oil beetles" because they release oily droplets of hemolymph from their joints when disturbed; this contains cantharidin, a poisonous chemical causing blistering of the skin and painful swelling.

BBC Nature has recently reported on the decline in British oil beetles, and how an oil spill is affecting up to 10,000 rockhopper penguins on Tristan da Cunha island, a UK overseas territory.

Indeed, every day brings possibilities of new flowers, some new kind of insect: a fat, steel-blue oil beetle thrusting her way out of the earth to blunder over hedge-bottom debris in search of a slimmer but scarcely less clumsy male.

When the host female bee lays eggs in its cells, the first-stage larva of the violet oil beetle eats the eggs of the bee, increases in volume and becomes the second-stage larva, which continues its development eating honey and pollen.

The blister beetle genus Meloe is a large, widespread group commonly referred to as oil beetles.

Sitaris and Meloe are beetles which live "at the expense of bees of the genus Anthophora."

Sitaris, Lord Avebury on Meloe and.

Roman Snails, Heath Snail and a rare Oil Beetle Meloe rugosus are present.

For an account of Sitaris and Meloe, see Sharp's "Insects," II., page 272.)

The site supports a large population of the Marsh Fritillary butterfly, and it is also one of the few sites in Britain at which the Oil Beetle Meloe rugosus occurs.

Thus in the larvae of Chaoborus and its allies they are adapted for seizing the prey, while those of the male of Meloe and several other insects are used for holding the females.