So, I get this odd email and a Huff Post news clipping from a gal who cohabitates Philly and LBI. Referencing my blogs on illegal wildlife trade, she passed on news of a theft from the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion. Thieves cleaned out more than 80 percent of the museum’s vibrant collection.

Nope, it wasn’t your standard art and sculptures heist. Instead, it was the grabbing of something like 7,000 insects, spiders and herptiles. Live ones, that is.