{"id":486,"date":"2018-02-09T07:47:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/?p=486"},"modified":"2018-02-09T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:47:05","slug":"name-a-cockroach-for-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2018\/02\/09\/name-a-cockroach-for-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Name a cockroach for Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">What do you get a beau who loves cockroaches?\u00a0 Why, you <a href=\"https:\/\/bronxzoo.com\/roach\">name a cockroach<\/a> for them!<a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/files\/2018\/02\/female-hisser.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-487 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/files\/2018\/02\/female-hisser-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"hissing cockroach\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/files\/2018\/02\/female-hisser-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/files\/2018\/02\/female-hisser.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bronxzoo.com\/\">The Bronx Zoo <\/a>has various packages available staring at $15 for a basic naming of a cockroach and going up to $75 for a package that includes naming a roach, a cockroach pin, cockroach chocolate candies, and cockroach socks!\u00a0 For those of you who do not know me well, a fun fact is that I LOVE weird socks (today I&#8217;m wearing Tacosaurus socks) and when I saw the cockroach socks it was love at first sight!\u00a0 While I think the price for the deluxe package is a bit steep at $75 (or if you just get the socks, $35 is still pricey), I still really hope that my husband tracks down some cheaper cockroach socks for me&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get a beau who loves cockroaches?\u00a0 Why, you name a cockroach for them! 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