• Awoo [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        It’s not that the post service will do it that surprises me. It’s that amazon does it. There’s nothing like this on the UK variant although I know the post service will take live crickets and things.

            • wax_worm_futures [comrade/them]
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              23 months ago

              I worked for an insect farm for over a year. It was run by unremarkable capitalists of mediocre intelligence who wouldn’t accept any assertion that there was room for improvement.

              Because they failed so hard at growing a certain species of grub, we had to truck in our stock of that species from another company so we could resell it. They must have had pretty bad containment procedures because crickets got in with the grubs. But the crickets were fine in transit.

    • Owl [he/him]
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      43 months ago

      You can buy a lot of insects that people use for pest control (ladybugs, mantis egg cases) or animal food (crickets, various larva), or pets (ants, centipedes).

      And apparently also hermit crabs, which seems extra cruel