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Smologies #16: INSECTS with Lila Higgins

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Cockroaches Are Not Dirty

Insects don't breathe through their mouth and then the oxygen goes through the lungs into the circulatory system. Insects have these things called spiracles along the side of their body, which will tie little holes and then oxygen is brought in through those holes. I've licked a cockroach in front of children before to show you it's not dirty. It was literally in a museum program many a number of years ago. This cockroach lives in the jungle and from Madagascar. And I was like, they're not dirty. Had that go over. They thought it was amazing.

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