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So You've Been Swallowed By A Frog (Encore - 1/17/22)

Wow in the World

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The Bombadeer Beetle

The bombadeer beetle is a pretty good example of that. After a frog gobbles it up, it tooks out this hot chemical spram that is so gross and so foul, makes the frog puke all over the place. Anyhow, this study was about a completely different beetle, a japanese water beetle. He goes by the superlong scientific name regan bartia attenuata. But when the frog ate the beetle, it didn't spit it right back out. It shot out of its but, well, not just a butt.

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