These bugs are constantly peeing. #shorts #science #SciShow

If you've ever felt like you pee a lot, you've got nothing on the sharpshooter bug. They pee like, literally all the time, and they've found a neat trick to get all that waste away from them - they use a physics trick called superpropulsion that's so powerful, we're trying to use it to launch rockets!

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Sources:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36376-5
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sharpshooter-insects-use-superpropulsion-to-catapult-their-pee1/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/watch-these-glassy-winged-sharpshooters-fling-pee-bubbles-with-anal-catapult/

Image Sources:
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/976108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eAb26nQa6s
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36376-5/figures/1
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broad-headed_Sharpshooter_-_Oncometopia_orbona,_Julie_Metz_Wetlands,_Woodbridge,_Virginia_-_28908389724.jpg