Bombardier beetles have the infamous ability to synthesize and release rapid bursts of stinky, burning-hot liquid from their rear ends. These noxious emissions can kill other insects, or startle ...

They also collected Japanese common toads, which are natural bombardier beetle predators, and Japanese stream toads, whose habitat does not overlap with the insect. Sugiura and Sato hypothesized ...

With “unspeakable disgust and pain” he discovered it was a Bombardier Beetle—the only known creature to mix a boiling hot chemical explosion inside its own body. As it squirted livid acid ...

From 12-year-old boys, apparently. There is, though, a remarkable real-life version of the bonnacon: the bombardier beetle. While it doesn’t weaponize its dung per se, it has evolved a cannon in ...

The streaked bombardier beetle is officially the UK's rarest insect ... and the rubble-strewn habitat it has found congenial is to be obliterated. In an attempt to save the beetle, the developers ...

Toad versus bombardier beetle is almost a fair fight. Toads are hugely bigger, can tongue-strike in an eyeblink and swallow all kinds of nasty stuff. But bombardier beetles can shoot hot steam and ...

The streaked bombardier beetle is officially the UK's rarest insect ... and the rubble-strewn habitat it has found congenial is to be obliterated. In an attempt to save the beetle, the developers ...