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         This brightly colored beetle protects itself by swelling up with air and bleeding from its joints releasing irritating chemicals on would-be predators. 

         Adults eat flowers, for example, brittlebush flowers.

 

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Arizona Blister Beetle (Lytta magister)

 


 
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