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Iron cross blister beetle
Tegrodera aloga
The iron cross blister beetle is a long, narrow beetle with a wide head. Its wing cases are bright yellow and red with a black cross on them.
Lives in
Deserts of Arizona and California in the USA and Sonora in Mexico
Length
2 cm (0.79 in)
What does it eat?
The grown-up beetles eat spring flowers of desert plants and alfalfa, and also drink nectar. Its larvae are thought to live in the nests of ground bees.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 3 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 6.2 seconds
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Iron cross blister beetle about 0.58 km/h (0.36 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its name comes from the black cross on its wing cases.
2
These beetles are often found in big groups rather than alone.
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Most asked questions about Iron cross blister beetle
?How big is the iron cross blister beetle?
It is usually about 2 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tegrodera aloga
- Named by
- Skinner, 1903
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Meloidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Meloidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Tegrodera aloga (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Mike. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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