Inside Look at Making of Beetle's Toxic, Pulsed Spray (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Inside Look at Making of Beetle's Toxic, Pulsed Spray (1 of 2)

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Photograph of bombardier beetle spray ejection. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 1, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.M. Arndt at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, 'Mechanistic origins of bombardier beetle (Brachinini) explosion-induced defensive spray pulsation.'

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[Credit: Charles Hedgcock, © 2015 Wendy Moore]

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