Published February 8, 2021 at 3:35 PM CST Listen
Missouri Botanical Garden
Through the Cameo app, the Missouri Botanical Garden s Butterfly House is offering cockroach dedications for Valentine s Day.
If your idea of a Valentine’s Day gift is more a lighthearted roasting than chocolates and flowers, this year, entomologists at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Butterfly House stand ready to name a cockroach in honor of your not-so-loved one. For a small fee, you can have one of the hated bugs named for an ex or use a funny moniker to take an inside joke a step further.
“We ve had parents dedicate one for their children, we ve had husbands get it for their wives and vice versa. People have done it for Stan Kroenke. We ve had one named after the year 2020. Just anything to sort of be light and fun,” said Tad Yankoski, MoBot’s senior entomologist.