$40,000 worth of rare, venomous insects were stolen in a tragic bug-lary

There are thousands and thousands of stolen bugs — including one of the world’s most venomous spiders and several cockroach colonies — still missing from the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion, in case you needed a reason to scream this weekend. 

The thieves got away with $40,000 worth of insects and lizards on Wednesday. The insectarium estimates that the thieves stole about 7,000 animals in total, a whopping 80 to 90 percent of the insectarium’s exhibits. 

Police and insectarium staff think the heist might have been an inside job. Security footage showed people walking around the museum holding plastic boxes full of some missing insects, including giant African mantises, bumblebee millipedes, warty glowspot roaches, tarantulars, dwarf and tiger hissers, and leopard geckos. When the crime was reported, the New York Times says, insectarium employees found two staff uniforms “stuck to the wall with knives.” Read more…

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Source: Mashable | ,000 worth of rare, venomous insects were stolen in a tragic bug-lary