HOUSTON,US - The Houston Museum of Natural Science wants to buy 1,000 cockroaches which grow to 2 inches long, can fly and thrive in the city's sub-tropical climate.Museum is offering 25 cents per cockroach,as it seeks to populate a new insect exhibit alongside its Cockrell Butterfly Center,said the museum's entomologist Laurie Pierrel.
They will be part of an exhibit polishing the image of bugs that feed off decaying organic matter and in so doing add to the general cleanliness.
"They're decomposers, a bit like a trash disposal," Pierrel said. "If we didn't have cockroaches, there'd be so much more trash around."
Cockroaches are widely believed to be dirty, disease-carrying creatures, but that is unfair, Pierrel said.
"They are very clean like a cat.They clean themselves all day." , she said.
There is the matter that they often enter houses through the sewer system, and that troublesome organic matter from there can stick on their feet, but only until they clean it off, Pierrel said.
On Wednesday,the Houston Chronicle had a frontpage illustration of a homemade roach trap to capture the bugs without touching them.
The museum's entomologist Laurie Pierrel said she will be outside the museum the next three Saturdays with a bucket for the bugs and money for the sellers.
What will the museum roaches eat? Pretty much what they would get scavenging in the average home.
"We usually throw in a box of cake mix, some pieces of apple, some pieces of orange, cat food, dog food - our insects eat well," Pierrel said.
Houstonians are invited to sell their cockroaches at the entrance to the Cockrell Butterfly Center on Tuesdays (May 8th and May 15th) from 4 – 7 p.m. or Saturdays (May 5th, May 12th and May 19th,2007) from 12 – 3 p.m. for $0.25 each.Upon arrival, the sellers should ask for a Museum entomologist,but fear not, there will be no cockroach genocide. Extras will be dumped in nearby park lands.
“Cockroaches are fastidious creatures.They are as clean as the area in which they live, and catching them is a great activity for kids. By contributing cockroaches from your environment, you’ll be helping educate all our visitors about this, and the many other, surprising truths about bugs.”,the musem's curator of entomology Nancy Greig said.
The museum's curator of entomology insists the public payday for cockroaches isn't just a marketing ploy.
"Absolutely, this wasn't devised as a joke.We needed more cockroaches for the exhibit, so I sent this message out to everyone in the museum asking people to bring them in. Well, someone decided to tell the press, and all hell has broken loose.", she said.
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