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A woman from China has a breed of cockroaches she has cared for in her home.
According to the China Morning Sun, Yuan Meixia, a pharmacy worker has 100,000 roaches that she takes care of in her home. Meixia feeds the insects' honeydew, apples and rice bran. She also built special zippered silk nets and got rid of all of her doors in her home so they wouldn't be crushed to death.
Meixia's love for the roaches isn't the only reason why she has decided to take them under her wing.
The 37-year-old waits for the roaches to reach adulthood to drown them and dry them in the sun so she can sell them to pharmaceutical companies for $148 a kilogram.
The companies use the bugs for their medicine. It is unknown what companies are using the dead bugs.
