You can name a cockroach after your lover, at the Bronx Zoo

Through the Bronx Zoo's Name-a-Roach programme, your sweetheart could have a namesake among one of its 50,000 Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Photo: Bronx Zoo/dpa

If you are looking for a Valentine's Day gift that will send shivers down your lover's spine, a New York zoo has the answer: name a giant cockroach after them.

Through the Bronx Zoo's Name-a-Roach programme, your sweetheart could have a namesake among one of its 50,000 Madagascar hissing cockroaches.