Boing Boing informs us that:
The Houston Museum of Natural Science will pay $0.25 each for the first 1,000 living cockroaches brought in by the public at specific times over the next two weeks. The roaches will be part of an exhibit on the "'sanitary' engineers of the insect world'" within the new Brown Hall of Entomology. Those who bring in cockroaches after the 1,000 are already collected receive passes to the new exhibition hall.
Somehow, I suspect there are quite a few Texans sitting on biological goldmines right now. Just remember, the cockroaches have to be alive.
I smell yet another re-imagining of "The Beverly Hillbillies" coming up ...