"Hey Mom, Did you know a female cockroach can lay eggs without sperm?" "What do you mean? Do they store the sperm? How are the eggs fertilized?"
"She can make babies with her own unfertilized eggs, only they will all be female like her."
"You're kidding me!"
DS12 has been reading A Field Guide To Household Bugs. I hope we don't have any roaches lurking about!
7 comments:
Yikes! Interesting, but yikes!
It is interesting. But, gotta agree with Maija, YIKES! Roaches REALLY creep me out!
Interesting but I don't want to live with those creatures ever again. Had way too many when we lived in Il
Interesting.
Ugh!! There are far to many of those critters without them needing a mate.
AHHHH!!! (running screaming)
I've always thought I was safe from the ~occasional~ one that comes in with groceries.
Now I'll never feel safe again. ; P
How charming!
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