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By Tobias Carroll Have you ever thought about illegally buying spiders online? I’m going to guess that the vast majority of you answered that with a resounding “Hell no.” Strangely enough, there are more than a few people who would be completely OK with a package of arachnids showing up on their doorstep. That’s one of the big takeaways from a new article in Smithsonian Magazine, which dives into a recent study on the illicit sale of wildlife. As Smithsonian‘s Margaret Osborne writes, the research found that over “1,200 species of spiders, scorpions and other arachnids were involved in the wil…