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In Nicaragua, tarantulas are latest cash crop

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Tico Times (Costa Rica)

Publication Date
2014-12-01

MANAGUA, Nicaragua – His corn and bean fields ravaged by drought, Nicaraguan farmer Leonel Sánchez Hernández grudgingly found a new harvest: tarantulas. He gets a little over a dollar for each of the hairy critters, which breeders sell overseas as pets.

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