Inside a Turkish scorpion farm

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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