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Online pet shops are crawling with spiders captured in the wild

The vast and unregulated global trade in arachnids includes many species scooped up directly from their native habitats.
An large ornate tiger spider (Poecilotheria ornata) on a branch.

The ornate tiger spider (Poecilotheria ornata), which is endemic to Sri Lanka, is widely traded — and endangered. Credit: Kenneth Chin

Scientists are unravelling a tangled trade web: the online arachnid market1.

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Nature 606, 10 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01411-w

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  1. Marshall, B. M. et al. Commun. Biol. 5, 448 (2022).

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