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Fucking China and their animal smuggling. Let me guess…. Ant soup? Makes your dick hard?
Is there some kind of breeding technique to cultivating a large quantity of queens? Or is this just pure brute force poking at a bunch of hives/nests/mounds?
Feels like it would be easier to smuggle a handfull then start farming them
Farming non-native species can be incredibly difficult.
Harder than digging and collecting then smuggling 2000 ant queens?
If you're using Kenyan labor, I imagine that the collecting is probably pretty inexpensive. Wages in Kenya probably aren't going to be very high.
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https://humancapital.worldbank.org/en/economy/KEN
According to that, 70.1% of the population makes less than $3.65/day (2021 numbers). If the comment in this thread about a queen selling for $200 is accurate, you can probably afford to put a lot of human labor into collecting.
We get Chinese smugglers poaching tortoises and hermit crabs here in Okinawa. So annoying.
I am trying to understand who buys them and why ?
Nobody else look at the picture and wonder if they boofed the ant capsules.
It's all just a big misunderstanding, he was worried that the little bag of peanuts would leave him unsatisfied and hungry on the flight home.
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.
Oh I've seen this one before, polish border control caught 2580 live ants being smuggled
- growing demand for garden ants – scientifically known as Messor cephalotes - in Europe and Asia, where collectors keep them as pets.*


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