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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5141a1ed-d598-46ec-8e41-ccee1f0486ac

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why would cockroaches HAVE milk? They don't nurse young or anything like that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

That's somehow even worse than my original mental image. Great work science!