Inside a Turkish scorpion farm
STORY: Thousands of scorpions in this
Turkish lab are waiting to be milked
Locator: Sanliurfa, Turkey
Lab workers use tweezers to
squeeze out their valuable venom
which is used in cosmetics,
painkillers, and antibiotics
(Metin Orenler, Owner)
"We currently have over 20,000 scorpions. We both breed the scorpions themselves and also milk them. We freeze the venom that we obtain as a result of the milking we do, then we turn it into powder and sell it to Europe."
A single scorpion produces a tiny two milligrams
But the venom can fetch millions in large quantities