Now and again , Japan and New Zealand blame Australia for red back spiders arriving in shipments of timber or some other products. A fisherman friend who makes great use of Darwin port facilities says he spotted a strange looking creepy crawly which he reckons could have been a nasty American black widow spider aggressively prancing about ashore. He bases his claim on a TV documentary which showed a female black widow spider devouring those around her , an act which made the hair stand up on the nape of his neck.
Unfortunately, he stomped on the spider he saw instead of putting it in a jar to be identified His alarming story raises the possibility that there could be a whole colony of these poisonous and repugnant things lurking about the waterfront.
Anyone seeing a vile black widow– like critter anywhere near the port, sinking its fangs into a trough of expensive morsels or spinning an evil web should try and capture it for a French arachnologist to examine and launch an eradication campaign.
Unfortunately, he stomped on the spider he saw instead of putting it in a jar to be identified His alarming story raises the possibility that there could be a whole colony of these poisonous and repugnant things lurking about the waterfront.
Anyone seeing a vile black widow– like critter anywhere near the port, sinking its fangs into a trough of expensive morsels or spinning an evil web should try and capture it for a French arachnologist to examine and launch an eradication campaign.
