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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Talata. Got a minute?

Microbes play a huge role in our nutrition, our immunity, maybe even our mental health.

But we humans aren't the only ones that rely on these armies of resident bacteria.

Baby cockroaches, the cockroaches that just emerge from the egg don't have any gut bacteria.

That's Kobe Shaw, an entomologist and chemical ecologist at North Carolina State University.

The first thing they do is they take a nice feces meal, basically eating the poop,

eating the feces of their brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers.

Disgusting roaches.

Don't worry.

That excrement inoculates the roaches with beneficial gut bugs, Shawl says.

And it's also a longevity-boosting nutritional supplement.

But the weirdest thing is, the poop actually calls the tots to come hither,

because it's sliced with compounds

like fatty acids that attract roaches of all ages. The substances are called aggregation

pheromones, so poop essentially serves as a rallying call to congregate and feast. To determine

where the attractive chemicals come from, Shawl and his colleagues raised a group of

sterile, microbe-free cockroaches, and then collected their excrement.

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