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If you're a skunk or fox or a very strange person and you poke your nose under a rock in the desert southwest looking for something to eat,

you might be surprised to see dozens of bright blue and red beetles scurrying to and fro.

And you might be really curious as they quickly turn their butts towards you.

But the curiosity wouldn't last long.

A couple thousandths of a second later, a fusillade of boiling hot toxic spray would drive

off both you and your musings.

The insects with a spraying butts are fittingly named Bombardier beetles,

and they can fire off 500

pulses per second of caustic defensive chemicals. What also makes them unusual is that even though

the nocturnal beetles are solitary by night, dozens or even hundreds of them of various

bombardier species snuggle together under rocks during the day. It's actually a fairly unusual phenomenon

for different species to regularly associate with one another. University of Arizona entomologist

Wendy Moore. But these guys are sheltering together and they're actually doing it intentionally,

you know, because they have more options.

There's plenty of options within the habitat that they could actually segregate out by species,

and they don't.

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