Smugglers will try anything won’t they? The latest interesting smuggling attempt involves bugs as mules.

Fortunately the smugglers attempt wasn’t successful.

A customs officer in the Netherlands too a close look at a consignment of more than 100 larger dead beetles that had been send from Peru and discovered that cocaine had been stashed inside them.

“We see a lot of things, but this was a first for us,” customs spokesman Kees Nanninga said.

“It looked like they were cut open, the drugs hidden in their backs and then they were glued back together again,” he said.

In total the insects held about 10 ounces of cocaine said to be worth about $11,000.