• phx@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

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

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      12 hours ago

      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.