Airport security finds hundreds of live spiders hidden under passenger's clothes
Security staff at Lima airport stopped a traveler with unusual body shape who tried to transport exotic insects to South Korea. The man had wrapped hundreds of rare creatures around his body
At Limaʼs main airport a 28-year-old South Korean man got caught with an odd-looking belly which turned out to be full of exotic insects (security noticed his strange body shape during routine check)
The man tried to transport more than 300 tarantulas 100 centipedes and nine bullet ants wrapped around his mid-section; all creatures were packed in zip-lock bags with special paper filters.
It was observed that the citizen had placed these specimens in small zip-lock bags with filter paper - they were placed around his body contained by two girdles
Alice Hughes from Hong Kong University explains that private collectors act like pokemon-hunters: they want to get as many different spiders as possible. Chris Hamilton an Idaho University professor points out that tarantulas are easy targets - they can live up to 30 years but dont breed often which makes their populations hard-to-restore
About 6 months ago a similar case happened in Istanbul where a US museum worker was stopped with 1‚500 dead scorpions but later cleared of wrong-doing because he had proper permits
