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« Film criticism | Main | How a child changes » Friday, May 4, 2007Save the roachesStrange news out of Houston: the Houston Museum of Natural Science is paying people who have a roach problem. To populate a new insect exhibit, the museum is offering a 25-cent reward for each live bug donated -- up to 1,000 roaches a person. A blogger at free exchange gets wise about the entomology curator's suggested method of catching the little buggers: "First, you cover a glass jar with pantyhose. (These are still in fashion in Houston.) Then, you bait the jar with beer or dog food (those are her suggestions)." "Absolutely, this wasn't devised as a joke," the curator told the Chronicle, adding "we really do need cockroaches." Posted by Evan Hughes at 04:25 PM
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