"Translucent Cockroach Babies Hatch in Creepy Footage"
National Geographic's new series "A Real Bug's Life" captures the skin-crawling moment translucent cockroach larvae burst from their leathery egg case, a process that took six months of trial and error to film. Typically found in sewers and drains, female American cockroaches produce one egg case per month to protect around 16 eggs, and capturing this footage in the wild would have been impossible, so entomologist Tim Cockerill and cinematographer Nathan Small placed cockroach egg cases in a controlled environment to film the hatching process.
