Bloody-Nosed Beetle
Timarcha tenebricosa
This large, flightless leaf beetle lives in grassland, hedgerows, gardens, and rough waysides where its food plants grow. It walks slowly over low vegetation and the ground, feeding mainly on bedstraw and related plants. When threatened, it exudes bright red hemolymph from the mouth and leg joints, a foul-tasting defensive fluid that gives the beetle its common name. Its domed black body and fused wing covers make it sturdy but not fast.
- Type
- Venom
- Conservation status
- NE
Growth chain
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- Bloody-Nosed Beetle