Office of The Director Of Public Prosecutions/X Two Belgian teenagers admitted in court that they attempted to traffic thousands of queen ants to supply the growing international exotic pet market.

Belgian nationals Lornoy David, left, and Seppe Lodewijckx, right, who admitted to charges related to the illegal possession and trafficking of live queen ants to sell as exotic pets, appear at ...

In Kenya, two Belgian teenagers and two others face charges for smuggling thousands of ants, highlighting a disturbing shift in wildlife trafficking. Authorities discovered the Messor Cephalotes ...

Nairobi, Kenya — Two Belgian teenagers were charged Tuesday with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a ...

Samples of garden ants concealed in syringes are presented to court as two Belgian nationals, a Vietnamese and a Kenyan national appeared for the hearing of their case, after they pleaded guilty ...

Four suspects, including three foreign nationals, appeared Tuesday in a court in Kenya accused of trafficking highly sought-after ants out of the country. Belgian nationals Lornoy David and Seppe ...

The suspects, two Belgians, a Vietnamese national and a Kenyan, were arrested in separate operations and found with more than 5,000 ants packed into containers designed to keep the insects alive ...

Samples of garden ants concealed in syringes are presented to court as two Belgian nationals, a Vietnamese and a Kenyan national appeared for the hearing of their case, in Nairobi ...

The 10-year-old Japanese boy took it for repair, and found out that an invasive species has taken up residence inside the console: fire ants. This sent him on a quest to 'design' a type of sand that ...

15, 2025 - Four suspects, including three foreign nationals pleaded guilty to a charge of trafficking of trafficking highly sought-after ants out of Kenya. The men - two Belgians, a Vietnamese and ...