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Why would cockroaches HAVE milk? They don't nurse young or anything like that
Cockroach milk is sourced from the Pacific Beetle cockroach, a type of roach that gives birth to live offspring and produces 'milk', which it feeds its embryos through a 'brood sac' (essentially a cockroach womb). There is, in fact, no actual 'milking' involved: scientists need to carve out the cockroach’s gut in order to access the milk, which is in the form of crystals.
That's somehow even worse than my original mental image. Great work science!
Not worse as the insect shit we eat in the morning, called Honey.
Delicious bee puke, i can't wait to do a line of roachmilk.
How is there not a single Futurama reference in the comments? I thought we were all nerds?
Fundamental commodities for a space game: baobab trees, eels, crystal milk, serfs.
Finally, a use for them
Milk has many uses.
🎵 La cucaleche, la cucaleche 🎵
Is this acquired similar to how cow milk is or more like almond milk?
Popped open the article to find out, and the answer is neither. The 'milk' is crystals collected by cutting open a particular kind of roach and extracting them from its brood sack.
There's a phrase I didn't know I'd be using today.
I wonder what kind of research goes in a lab where someone goes "what if we cut the grub from the pregnant cockroach and test to see it's nutrition content?"
What a terrible day to be able to read.
I would rather drink piss than cokroach milk
What ever you do, dont tell RFK about raw cockroach milk.
He would snort lines of it ... it is crystals after all.
Would've been useful knowledge while I was still living in the dorm...