The monsoon brought out the blooms on the desert four o’clocks, Mirabilis multiflora, and the Rocky Mountain bee plants, Cleome serrulata, near Crownpoint on the Navajo Nation. The floral flush ...

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There are thousands of different kinds of beetles in Maine. But only one — the blister beetle — produces a toxic chemical that causes skin blisters if touched, is fatal to livestock, was once a common ...

Cantharidin, a terpenoid extracted from blister beetles, and its synthetic analogues such as norcantharidin exhibit broad anticancer activity through multiple molecular pathways. A principal mechanism ...

“Spanish fly” refers to an actual chemical – one that is much more likely to cause blisters than arousal. It’s still not okay to expose kids to it, but a secret experiment in the 1950s did exactly ...

Today's Bug of the Week is one nasty customer. Shawn Wells recently snapped a pic of an American oil beetle, also known as a ...

Though blister beetles make an appearance each year, the bug species is making itself more well known this summer due to the excessive dryness and heat. “It is primarily because of the drought that we ...