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Customs agents seized more than two dozen giant beetles - some the size of a child s hand - from an overseas package after postal workers heard the insects making scratching noises.The large bugs arrived last week from Taiwan at a post office in Mohnton, about 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia, in a box whose contents were labeled as toys,
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