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blister beetle
(Encyclopedia)blister beetle, common name for certain soft-bodied, usually black or brown, mostly elongate and cylindrical beetles belonging to the family Meloidae. Blister beetles are common insects found feeding ...ladybird beetle
(Encyclopedia)ladybird beetle or ladybug, member of a cosmopolitan beetle family with over 4,000 species, including 350 species in the United States. Ladybird beetles are mostly under 1⁄4 in. (6 mm) long and are ...May beetle
(Encyclopedia)May beetle: see June beetle.potato beetle
(Encyclopedia)potato beetle, name for two beetles of the leaf beetle family and for two of the blister beetle family, all destructive to the potato plant and its relatives. Most notorious is the Colorado potato bee...oil beetle
(Encyclopedia)oil beetle: see blister beetle.scarab beetle
(Encyclopedia)scarab beetle or scarab, name for members of a large family of heavy-bodied, oval beetles (the Scarabaeidae), with about 30,000 species distributed throughout most of the world and over 1,200 in North...water beetle
(Encyclopedia)water beetle, name for aquatic beetles of several families. They should not be confused with water bugs, which are true bugs (order Hemiptera). The predaceous diving beetles (family Dytiscidae) are a ...whirligig beetle
(Encyclopedia)whirligig beetle: see water beetle. ...snout beetle
(Encyclopedia)snout beetle: see weevil.Colorado potato beetle
(Encyclopedia)Colorado potato beetle: see potato beetle. ...Browse by Subject
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