Researchers in Switzerland have turned to the insect world, specifically the acid-spewing bombardier beetle, to come up with a way to fend off ATM thieves. The shiny blue-green bombardier beetle ...

Want a splash of steaming acid to the face next time you try ... to a tiny-winged orange and black insect known as the bombardier beetle. The bombardier beetle defends itself by spraying perceived ...

the bombardier beetle might not be the world's most interesting insect. But it is very interesting. It deters would-be attackers, such as ants, frogs and lizards, by shooting boiling-hot ...

Of all the interesting insects on our planet — and we have about 1.7 million known species to choose from — the bombardier beetle may be ... frogs and lizards, by shooting hot, toxic chemicals ...

We have the highly developed cannon of the African bombardier beetle and species with much simpler models that just excrete a bit of foam. Go on down to an even simpler defense like formic acid ...

Apparently, there's a beetle that escapes certain death in the belly of a toad by shooting a toxic ... Back in 2016, researchers in Japan fed a bombardier beetle to a toad to see what would ...

Researchers show how how the bombardier beetle concocts its deadly explosives ... reactions that detonates the fluid and sends it shooting out of the insect's spray nozzle in a machine-gun-like ...

The hundreds of species of bombardier beetle are named for their defense mechanism, which involves shooting a boiling stream of toxic p-benzoquinones at up to 10 meters (33 feet) per second from a ...

The bombardier beetle has fascinated many, including Charles Darwin, who reported that one of them fired “acid” into his mouth—apparently he placed one in his teeth, unaware of its noxious ...

Ballistic beetles seek safety in numbers by sheltering with other species Bombardier beetles prefer resting in the company of other ground beetles over going it alone Date: October 31, 2018 Source ...

the bombardier beetle might not be the world's most interesting insect. But it is very interesting. It deters would-be attackers, such as ants, frogs and lizards, by shooting boiling-hot ...