![]() Those under the magnifying glass included Kanya, who claimed Cambridge had swindled him out of ownership. But which of the museum’s eccentric staff was responsible? And where were the 7,000 bugs? They soon surmised that, like half of workplace robberies, this was probably an inside job. ![]() In the process of investigating this one-of-a-kind robbery, the Philadelphia police lifted the rock to find a seedy subculture of bug poachers, obsessive collectors and illicit smugglers. The museum received thousands of dollars in donations from sympathetic citizens. The case became nationwide news to such an extent that Jimmy Kimmel and Amy Poehler joked about it on late-night TV. I never expected such a crazy rollercoaster.” I figured it was just a clickbaity headline. “He immediately said: ‘There’s so much more to this story.’ So I just kept pulling at strings. When Feldman heard about the theft, he contacted Cambridge. He noticed that cars kept pulling over to look at it and thought: ‘Huh, there’s something here.’ That developed into the first insectarium in the country.” As a publicity stunt, he’d put his ‘Catch of the Day’ in the store window – a huge cockroach, a termite colony or whatever. ![]() ![]() Back in 1975, he had a pest-control company called Bug Off. It was set up by this ex-cop called Steve Kanya. “I’d heard of the museum,” the 37-year-old says via video call.
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