Love stinks … like a cockroach.
The Bronx Zoo in New York is bringing back its surprisingly popular “Name-a-Roach” program for another year. The Valentine’s Day tradition allows interested parties to name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after their Valentine — or arch nemesis — for the affordable price of $10.
If you choose to participate, your Valentine will receive a “unique certificate of honor featuring the name of your roach” via e-mail and and you will imaginably get some sort of (unhealthy?) satisfaction that often comes with gift giving.
According to the zoo, thousands of “hopeless romantics” have participated in the program since its conception in 2011.
The $10 from each participant is donated to the Wildlife Conservation Society to help “conserve species big and small, beautiful and damned.”
Go ahead and “seal it with a hiss,” as the website invites. Who needs flowers and candy when you’ve got a cockroach?
