"Meloidae" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said. "That was a blister beetle; smash it on your arm and you'll grow a nice welt. A member of the Meloidae family." ...
— Master of None • Lloyd Neil Goble
... out by Brauer (1869) is that in a few families, the first larval instar is campodeiform, while the subsequent instars are eruciform. We may take as an example of such 'hypermetamorphosis' the life-story of the Oil or Blister-beetles (Meloidae) as first described by J.H. Fabre (1857), and later with more elaboration by H. Beauregard (1890). From the egg of one of these beetles is hatched a minute armoured larva, with long feelers, legs, and cerci, whose task is, for example, to seize hold of a bee in order that the latter ...
— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter |
