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πŸͺ² Beetles

African Bombardier Beetle

Pheropsophus aequinoctialis

About

A large bombardier beetle with a reddish-orange head and pronotum contrasting with dark blue-black elytra. It produces powerful defensive chemical sprays when threatened.

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Did You Know?

Its larvae are specialist parasitoids of mole cricket eggs, making this beetle a promising biological control agent for pest mole crickets in the Americas.