Dr. Dominic Evangelista
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The smallest cockroaches are about two millimeters long.
Oh, little.
Yeah.
And there's a couple of different tiny ones.
One of the cutest tiny cockroaches is called Adophila fungicola.
They are a cockroach that lives with leafcutter ants.
They like attach onto the bodies of leafcutter ants and sort of like hang around them.
Yeah.
I think they do.
Yeah.
You can find pictures of it online.
And the largest cockroaches are some of the largest insects.
So the largest one in terms of wingspan
is megaloblata, my appropriate name.
It's about the size of, I don't know, I have a pretty big hand, about the size of my hand, when its wings are spread out.
And the largest one in terms of weight is the Australian burrowing cockroach.
And they're, yeah, about the size of like a closed fist.
And then every range of size in between.
Yeah, when I was a kid, I loved animals.
I loved just the diversity and the surprising nature of like weird animals or interesting animals.