Dr. Dominic Evangelista

They just secrete those urates and they recycle them.

Yeah.

I mean, in this case, it seems to be so integral to their biology because it's literally within the cells.

It's almost like a new type of mitochondria.

Yeah, so they're called appropriately bladder bacterium, cockroach bacterium.

Most of them are nocturnal.

During the day, they'll be in nooks and crannies and they will come out sometimes at night.

There are diurnal cockroaches.

Typically, when you see like a colorful cockroach, I think our assumption is that most of the time those are diurnal.

Yeah.

If you ever see a picture of a pretty cockroach, which there is a lot of them, it's probably a diurnal species.

Yeah, there's a couple of beetle mimic cockroaches that are really cool.

One of them is prosoplecta, which is found in Southeast Asia.

They look like leaf beetles.

There's meliroidia magnifica, which is emerald green and ruby red, like very bright.

It's also mimicking a beetle.

There's a couple of species or groups that are like metallic colored.

Cory didarum, that one I think is sometimes colorful.

There's also a lot of like Madagascar hissing cockroaches.

A lot of cockroaches have these like warts, horns on their shield.