Singaporean researchers are using fruit peels to recycle lithium-ion batteries. Waste from oranges, lemons, and pineapples helps dissolve battery material and recover metals. This pilot plant ...
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A beetle sprays boiling chemicals from its rear to blast away attackers
When a predator disturbs a bombardier beetle, the insect answers with a chemical weapon that would be at home in a laboratory ...
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 ...
Evidence proves the bombardier beetle survives up to 2 hours inside a toad's stomach. Some insects sting, some bite, and some spray acid bombs out of their nether regions. It's a perfectly tactical ...
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 ...
Many insects have evolved to protect themselves from predators. For example, different types of beetles have adopted defenses like protective body shells and toxic secretions. One such beetle is the ...
Erwin, Terry L. 1972. "Observations on the life history of bombardier beetles: Mechanism of egg hatching (Coleoptera: Carabidae)." Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 48, (1) 64.
The unfortunate frog or toad that accidentally mistakes a bombardier beetle for a tasty snack will find itself sorry. This unique beetle has the remarkable ability to spew a boiling-hot acid at its ...
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