Bombardier Beetle
🔬 Animal Research Sheet

Bombardier Beetle

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📖 Read about me

The bombardier beetle mixes two chemicals in a reinforced internal chamber, heating the spray to 100°C and firing it in rapid machine-gun pulses — up to 500 a second — that it can aim like a turret. Some have even been swallowed whole, then blasted their way back out alive.

🌍 Where do I live? (my habitat)

⚡ What is my superpower?

🤯 One weird TRUE fact I learned

🔎 How do scientists KNOW this?

(Hint: look for clues in the facts — did they film it, measure it, or test it?)

✏️ Draw me!

❓ One question I still have

Wild Zoo Facts · https://wildzoofacts.com/animals/bombardier-beetle/ — read the full facts, watch the video, and check your answers.