Nature's Bizarre Insect Secrets

Bombardier beetles shoot boiling acid from their butts at five hundred explosions per second.

They mix chemicals that heat the spray to two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit.

Orchid mantises mimic flowers so well that pollinators prefer them over real flowers.

These insects catfish bees better than nature itself. Nature really said, let's get weird.

Parasitic wasps zombify cockroach brains into obedient nannies that guard wasp babies. Caterpillars have four

thousand muscles, yet they still move in perpetual slow motion. Fungus gnat larvae

in New Zealand create glowing constellations using bioluminescent snot to trap prey.