A cool video has emerged of a man demonstrating a bombardier beetle’s defence reflex to his kids.

The footage, captured at the family’s home in Moose Jaw, Canada, shows the bombardier beetle shooting boiling hot liquid chemicals out of its abdomen when the man touches it with a pair of tweezers.

To film the experiment, the man suspended the beetle on a cotton swab using a low-temperature hot glue and they released the bug when they had finished.

“I found the beetle in my home office, running across the floor in front of me. Afterwards, the beetle was easily released from the glue to no ill effect” the filmer later wrote online.

Bombardier beetles spray a mixture of hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide, which can be fatal to other insects and painful to humans.

A cool video has emerged of a man demonstrating a bombardier beetle’s defence reflex to his kids.

The footage, captured at the family’s home in Moose Jaw, Canada, shows the bombardier beetle shooting boiling hot liquid chemicals out of its abdomen when the man touches it with a pair of tweezers.

To film the experiment, the man suspended the beetle on a cotton swab using a low-temperature hot glue and they released the bug when they had finished.

“I found the beetle in my home office, running across the floor in front of me. Afterwards, the beetle was easily released from the glue to no ill effect” the filmer later wrote online.

Bombardier beetles spray a mixture of hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide, which can be fatal to other insects and painful to humans.