{"id":300530,"date":"2025-07-15T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/?p=300530"},"modified":"2025-07-15T06:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:23:49","slug":"1500-tarantulas-found-in-airport-cake-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/en\/1-500-fagelspindlar-hittade-i-tartboxar-pa-flygplats\/","title":{"rendered":"1,500 tarantulas found in cake boxes at airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Cologne-Bonn Airport, customs made an unusual find \u2013 namely 1,500 tarantulas hidden in place containers inside cake boxes, reports&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/14\/germany-tarantulas-customs-cake-bozes\">The Guardian<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt left even the most experienced of us speechless,\u201d says an airport spokesperson.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The package arrived at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressen.se\/tagg\/location\/tyskland\/\" class=\"\">Germany<\/a>&nbsp;from Vietnam three weeks ago, but it was on Monday that the authorities made the images public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesman for Cologne-Bonn Airport, Jens Ahland, says that staff realized something was wrong because of a \u201dnoticeable smell\u201d \u2013 which was not in line with the smell you would expect from 7 kilograms of cake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy colleagues at the airport are regularly surprised by the contents of banned packages from around the world, but the fact that they have found 1,500 small containers containing young tarantulas left even the most experienced of us speechless,\u201d he says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201dSad to see what people do to animals\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahland believes that it is &quot;sad to see what people do to animals for their own profit.&quot;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the spiders do not survive the approximately 12-hour flight between Vietnam and Germany. 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