Roaches produce milk??!!

[kinyonga]

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cockroach-milk-nutrition

 

[salty dog]

yummm fresh roach milk & cereal for breakfast!!!

 

[Kaizen]

I knew there was a reason that warm, day-old roaches taste sour.

 

[jamest0o0]

This is old news! I've been drinking roach milk, it's why covid has no effect on me.

 

[Pearl Fields]

bleh.

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cockroach-milk-nutrition

Cockroach milk is a protein rich, crystallized substance produced by a specific type of cockroach called Diploptera punctata (1Trusted Source).

This species is unique because it gives birth to live offspring. Members make “milk” in the form of protein crystals to serve as food for their developing young (1Trusted Source).

OK, there's a credibility issue right there. Dubia roaches (Blaptica dubia) also bear live offspring, so it's not "unique". It's not true live birth with either species, but IDK how similar or identical the process is between these 2 species. I also don't know if this type of birth applies to any of the remaining ~4600 species of cockroaches. Just sayin'... ?‍




Chill out, pervs—they don't actually tell you How to Milk a Cockroach (not without killing it, anyway.)

Goggle: cockroach milk; there's a LOT out there—pervy & otherwise.

[Insert obscure "Joe's Apartment" reference here]

 

[Fchamel]

 

[jamest0o0]

Something that gets me, and trust me, I'd be grossed out by eating bugs. But the way we are so culturally influenced...

lobster/shrimp/crab= delicious and expensive
Insects on land= GROSS

 

[nightanole]

Could be worse, you want to know how flamingos get their "pink"? Mom and dad puke super pink milk into babby.

 

[kinyonga]

Lots of animals regurgitate food for their young.

 

[Mrjamwin]

So do these roaches have nipples?

 

[kinyonga]

@Mrjamwin Did you read the article I posted?
"However, harvesting this milk-like substance is currently a labor-intensive process. It involves killing a female cockroach and her embryos once it begins to lactate and then harvesting the crystals from its midgut"...

"According to one of the co-authors of a popular study on cockroach milk, it’s currently infeasible to mass-produce cockroach milk. The co-author estimates that it would take killing more than 1,000 cockroaches to make just 3.5 ounces (100 grams) of the milk"...

 

[Mrjamwin]

@Mrjamwin Did you read the article I posted?
"However, harvesting this milk-like substance is currently a labor-intensive process. It involves killing a female cockroach and her embryos once it begins to lactate and then harvesting the crystals from its midgut"...

"According to one of the co-authors of a popular study on cockroach milk, it’s currently infeasible to mass-produce cockroach milk. The co-author estimates that it would take killing more than 1,000 cockroaches to make just 3.5 ounces (100 grams) of the milk"...

No. ?

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

The co-author estimates that it would take killing more than 1,000 cockroaches to make just 3.5 ounces (100 grams) of the milk"...

WIN-WIN?

 

[jacksonchamnew]

Wait a minute, other cockroaches are viviparous. The Lobster roach produces live young.