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Please help identify bug^-^)
I love your site, and looking at all the bugs. I really missed my chance to work my love of bugs into a career. I have not been able to find this bug’s identity and after seeing your site think you will. I am in northern Arizona, near Prescott. We are in high desert landscape. they like to eat little tiny fleshy weeks you can see in the picture. There are many of them in the yard, not as dense as the blister bug swarm we experienced a few years ago, but you cannot walk around the yard without stepping around several each time. In the pictures their stripes look red, i think they are more orange in the sunlight. I put my finger next to him to show size.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mia

Hi Mia,
The “blister bugs” you mention in your letter are probably Blister Beetles in the family Meloidae. The insect in your photo is also a Blister Beetle in the family Meloidae, and in the genus Megetra.

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