The venomous spiders were packed into plastic tubes. According to the customs officers, many had not survived the flight from Vietnam to Germany.
The professor said that he enjoys listening to pop star Jay Chou's music in daily life as a way to relax and unwind. He added that it took him a considerable amount of time to select names for the spiders.
A visit to the hospital's ENT delivered a diagnosis that sent shivers down her spine – a spider's nest had taken root.
According to BBC, the spider bit Colin Blake while he was dining out with his wife in Marseille, France. He told the BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that he didn't feel the spider bite him.
The Taiwan woman had felt incessant beating, clicking and rustling sounds in her left ear, folowing which doctors discovered a spider in the ear canal.
The young boy stumbled upon the spider while playing near a river and reportedly instigated it till it finally bit him, in a quest to get superpowers of his own.
“It’s like something out of a science fiction movie!” said Andrew Wesley Legan, 30, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona entomology department in Tucson.
The doctors at the hospital were able to remove the spider safely. To the relief of everyone, the spider was non-poisonous and the woman had suffered minor damage to the ear canal.
Internet users were both appalled and impressed with the spider's skills. Some even found it cute.
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