Allie Ward

You've never had one try to hitch a ride in your coat pocket or anything, have you?

They're fast, though.

I was lucky enough to get to meet some Pacific beetle cockroaches.

They're pretty fast suckers, though, right?

There's no tit for tat there, though.

Sinead, if you're ever in New York, I'm sure that the Natural History Museum would be happy to have you.

And I will send those emails.

They do have some on ice, essentially.

How do you take your tea?

Just a dab of cockroach milk?

So now that you have this factoid, you can tell anyone who will listen.

Every day, you're just going to be looking on eBay for a Ren Faire tankard.

You're restreaming brat in the fall, whatever.

Meanwhile, there are a few brilliant weirdos who go to work every day with more roaches than they can count.

This is amazing.

Thank you so much for chatting with me.

Thank you for all the hard work in getting me the knowledge and information and the cockroach milk.

This work has fascinated me since the first time I ever heard of it.

So it's really an honor to get to talk to you.

And when I got an email back that I was going to be able to talk to you, I was like, you know, it was like a celebrity emailed me back.