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camelback bee attack

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I think the Arizona Blister Beetles ate all the bees. They were out of control on Tuesday!
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i saw just a few of those blister beetles - not at all what you were describing
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I saw swarms of blister beetles on the Mohave Trail at Piestewa a couple weeks ago. Hundreds of them. Saw a lot of them on the Ranger Trail at SM last week too. They seemed a little more aggressive at SM too... some of them actually flew after us and chased us off, lol. I don't remember seeing these things last spring... definitely not in these numbers at least.
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Since it's no longer April Fool's Day, perhaps I can venture to ask, "What the heck is a blister beetle?" Never heard of it.
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azbackpackr wrote:Since it's no longer April Fool's Day, perhaps I can venture to ask, "What the heck is a blister beetle?" Never heard of it.
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Re: camelback bee attack

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