The bombardier beetle carries one of the most theatrical defenses in the insect world, a chemical weapon that lets a small ground-dwelling beetle drive off ants, frogs and other would-be predators.

Bombardier beetles defend themselves by spraying boiling, toxic chemicals up to 212°F at predators. They can survive being eaten and force predators like toads to spit them out. Their explosive spray ...

Bombardier beetles have the infamous ability to synthesize and release rapid bursts of stinky, burning-hot liquid from their ...

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The new enhanced-video technology has shown how the controlled actions of two chambers located deep in the gland of a certain species of bombardier beetles (Brachinus elongatulus), allows the war-like ...

Bombardier beetles share their name with Air Force crews who drop bombs for a reason. When under attack, the beetles, native to much of the world, expel a noxious jet of scalding chemicals at their ...

There are around 400,000 species of beetles on Earth, and they are a food source for countless animals. They have had to develop strategies to protect themselves from would-be predators, and one of ...

The bombardier beetle, known scientifically as Brachinus, is a dark brown to black beetle with reddish-orange legs and head. The beetles are small in size, roughly half an inch to one inch in length.