Watch this short video with Museum cockroach expert George Beccaloni. George talks about the huge variety of cockroaches that exist, shows you some live specimens and explains his work on the first online database of the world's cockroaches, the Blattodea Species File Online (BSF).
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In World War II the Museum was used as a secret base to develop new gadgets for allied spies, including an exploding rat!