Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe HOUSTON, May 2 (UPI) -- The Houston Museum of Natural Science has announced it will pay up to $250 for 1,000 live cockroaches, as its new insect exhibit doesn't have enough of them. Nancy Greig, the museum's curator of entomology, said the renovated Cockrell Butterfly Center -- set to open May 2 -- needs more of the bugs, which in Texas, can grow to two inches in length. Advertisement Greig told The Houston Chronicle museum staff were told they could earn 25 cents per live bug. "Someone decided to tell the press, and all hell has broken loose," she said. "But we really do need cockroaches." The roaches collected on Saturdays and Tuesdays will join a new display featuring such other insects as dung beetles and termites, Greig said. Over-achievers who bring more than 1,000 roaches will receive the maximum $250, along with passes to return. Greig said if the museum receives more cockroaches than it needs for the exhibit, the extras will not be killed, but released into area parks, the newspaper reported.
