beetles
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These Australian Beetles Are So Rare They’ve Been Named After Legendary Pokemon
A wild binburrum articuno appeared!
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103 New Beetle Species Named After Star Wars Characters And Mythological Beasts
There are more species of beetle than just about anything else on Earth — approximately 400,000 species described, with perhaps a million or more left to catalogue. Now, researchers have identified 103 new species of weevil (a tiny variety of beetle), all from a single Indonesian island.
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Swallowed Bombardier Beetles Spew Hot Chemicals From Their Butt To Make Predators Vomit
It’s a cruel world out there, and animals will do just about anything to avoid being eaten. In the case of bombardier beetles, these crafty insects are able to escape after being swallowed by toads, which they do by ejecting hot, noxious chemicals that forces the predator to barf. It ain’t pretty, but it works.
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Ancient Bug Discovered In The Heart Of Antarctica
Insects aren’t the first thing that come to mind when we think of Antarctica, but as the discovery of a rare Antarctic beetle shows, this frozen continent was quite different millions of years ago.