The bombardier beetle is inspiring designers of engines, drug-delivery devices and fire extinguishers to improve spray technologies, writes Andy McIntosh, from Leeds University, and Novid Beheshti, of ...

Bombardier beetles (Brachinini) use a rapid series of discrete explosions inside their pygidial gland reaction chambers to produce a hot, pulsed, quinone-based defensive spray. The mechanism of ...

Many beetles secrete foulsmelling or bad-tasting chemicals from their abdomens to ward off predators, but bombardier Many beetles secrete foulsmelling or bad-tasting chemicals from their abdomens to ...

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.

With 1.7 million known species of insects to consider, 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, ...

Researchers used intense X-rays at the Advanced Photon Source, located at Argonne National Laboratory, to study how the bombardier beetle sprays hot, caustic chemicals from two rear glands when ...

The bombardier beetle is an inconspicuous insect that ranges much of the world with calm and self-assurance—and for jood reason. When attacked by a ferocious ant, its natural enemy, the bombardier ...