While field collecting is an obvious common practice for obtaining these animals, over the past decade or so a few of these "farms actually have very elaborate breeding programs going on. I feel captive propagation is becoming a far more common practice over there (so I've read or discussed w/ many that should have first hand knowledge) but yes, field collecting of gravid females still exists as well.

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