Instead you're naming a cockroach after your loved one. And not just any roach, one of the Bronx Zoo’s Madagascar hissing cockroaches. You can't beat that in terms of unexpected romantic gestures.

Madagascar hissing cockroaches can hiss for a number of reasons: alarm, aggression or courtship.

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