Kenya arrests Chinese national over attempt to smuggle 2,000 queen ants (www.bbc.com)
from FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 03:25
https://sh.itjust.works/post/56714642

cross-posted from: lemmings.world/post/42643077

Here’s a headline I never thought I’d read.

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real_squids@sopuli.xyz on 13 Mar 03:56 next collapse

Oh I’ve seen this one before, polish border control caught 2580 live ants being smuggled

who@feddit.org on 13 Mar 04:31 next collapse

attempting to smuggle more than 2,000 queen garden ants out of the country.

It is believed that the intended destinations were the exotic pet markets in Europe and Asia.

psx_crab@lemmy.zip on 13 Mar 04:33 next collapse

I’m curious what they do with the ant, so apparently it’s meant as a pets. Pet trade is one large fucked up industry, like with fish, a lot of it can’t breed captively so they all are wild caught then put on display, which mean a lot of it will die while in transportation. I assume this is the same with exotic pets like this ant.

BenjiRenji@feddit.org on 13 Mar 05:10 collapse

Bringing queens across country borders (or even state lines) is more illegal than I thought.

ryokimball@infosec.pub on 13 Mar 04:38 collapse

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