From the ArcaMax Publishing, Weird News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/weirdnews/s-563050-783853
KINNERTON, Wales (UPI) -- A Welsh couple returning home from a
five-year stay in North America said they discovered a black widow
spider stowing away in a garden hose.
Mike Newman, 53, said he and his wife, Trish, has just returned from
San Francisco when a mover helping them unpack at their Kinnerton
house found the venomous spider and a sack of its eggs in a hose they
brought back from the United States, WalesOnline.com reported
Thursday.
"The woman from the removal firm was very calm to be fair," Newman
said. "I had wrapped the hose pipe before we left America and I
probably would have taken more care had I known what was lurking
inside."
Newman said the luggage containing the spider had spent a month on a
container ship before arriving at their home.
"During our time in the U.S. we'd never seen a black widow, although
living there for some time we had made ourselves aware of what one
looked like," he said. "We knew straight away it was a black widow."
Newman said he and his wife caught the spider in a jam jar and took it
to Peter Heathcote, an exotic pets specialist with Budget Vets, the
arachnid's new home.