New British magazine

[Jaffster]

I was just watching Nation Geographic wild and there was an advertisement for a new magazine called 'Bugs'.

The first issue is all about Scorpions and you receive a free Scorpion in a keyring sort of thing. You know, a dead specimen preserved.

Which got me thinking..... there's 60 million people in Britain, I can only presume that they are going to sell thousands of these magazines. Are they really going to be real specimens?

I'm going to buy it tomorrow, I'm going to examine it. I don't for one second believe that someone has mates hundreds of (what looks to be) Androctonus Austrailis and waited the months for them to pop.

I'll report back with my findings once I've examined these!

 

[hadrurus 666]

i have got the magazine and the scorp seems real enough

 

[skinheaddave]

10:1 it is a Mesobuthus. These things are farmed en mass in China and popped into keychains and put on people's plates.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[BelfastScorpion]

I refuse to buy the magazine as I disagree with purposly killing scorpions for products. If they are naturally dead then that is fine, but I doubt very much they are.

BelfastScorpion.

 

[Mesx]

I refuse to buy the magazine as I disagree with purposly killing scorpions for products. If they are naturally dead then that is fine, but I doubt very much they are.

BelfastScorpion.

So you're a vegetarian as well?

Let us know if anyone actually read it?