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'Unsquishable' Beetle - the 'Ironclad beetle' or Diabolical beetle.
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[QUOTE="jim mcnamara, post: 6407690, member: 35824"] [B]TL;DR Summary:[/B] Unusual elytra microstructure creates enormous resistance to pressure. [URL]https://www.livescience.com/unbreakable-beetle.html[/URL] Want to read the paper? Note: use this link above, scroll down, to get a referring link to Nature. I cannot make it work here, you have to go there to see the paper These bark beetles, [I]Phloeodes diabolicus[/I] (Nosoderma diabilocus), can literally survive being run over by an automobile tire. It is a survival mechanism to avoid predation by birds like woodpeckers. There may be some practical applications of the unique internal structure of the elytra - the very, very hard forewings that changed function from flying to armor. See: pictures and other information: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosoderma_diabolicum[/URL] (Note different genus name, same bug. Biology has a taxonomic issue called 'nomen confusum' -- which you can get the gist of without knowing Latin.) [/QUOTE]
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