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Elderly couple donate life’s work — $10M worth of insects — to Arizona State University

As It Happens CBC

Some couples have his-and-her towel sets in their homes, but Charles and Lois O'Brien have his-and-her insect laboratories.

The Green Valley, Ariz., couple, both entomologists, have spent their lives travelling the world together, collecting and studying insects.

Now they’re donating their collection — worth $10 million US — to Arizona State University.

“We have over a million and a quarter in our collection at home,” Charles, 84, told As It Happens co-host Carol off.

“We sometimes rear them,” added Lois, 89. “We had one cactus bug that we kept alive for how long, Charlie?”

“Twenty-five months as an adult, which is very unusual,” Charles replied.

“And every night it walked around the aquarium —walk, walk, walk, walk, walk,” added Lois. “It was looking for its own kind of cactus to lay eggs, but it never found it and it never found a mate, poor thing.”

The cactus bug may have had a lonely life, but the O'Briens certainly have not.

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