Giant Bugs Seized in Our Area are Donated to Smithsonian

Giant Bugs Seized in Our Area are Donated to Smithsonian

(KYW's Hadas Kuznits holds two of the specimens that were seized by postal inspectors.)

by KYW's Hadas Kuznits

A Pennsylvania man has been placed on probation after trying to receive illegal insects -- some as big as your fist -- through the US postal system. And now those insects, long since dead, are being donated to the Smithsonian Institution.

When a postal worker discovered a box making scratching sounds from within and moving on its own, investigators were called. It turned out to contain beetles -- 26 total, traced to Marc Dilullo of Mohnton, Pa., near Reading.

Terry Thome, with the Philadelphia division of the USPS' postal inspection services, says the giant bugs -- hercules beetles, elephant beetles, giant stag beetles, and others -- were immediately confiscated:

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