"Noisy Bomber" | Meet the Little Insect That Can 'Spit Fire'

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Among dry bushes or on cracked ground, an insect that looks like just another ordinary beetle moves. But don’t let it fool you. When it senses danger, a chemical reaction occurs in its body that resembles an experiment in a chemistry lab. Within milliseconds, it produces a boiling explosion of toxic chemicals that spray with a small explosion sound towards the attacker. This is not a description of science fiction – this is the Bombardier beetle…