Parcel delivery of live animals criticized

Li Jing was shocked when she opened the parcel.

"I'll never forget the miserable scene when I opened the parcel and saw the small plastic bottle broken and bodies of fireflies falling on the floor," said the 27-year-old woman from Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, adding that the scattered bodies scared and disgusted her.

She said she bought the fireflies online in August from a shop in Jiangxi province, tempted by the widespread advertisements and romantic pictures on the shops at taobao.com, a major domestic online service provider.