Yvonne Whelan said she found a live spider in the grapes she purchased at a local supermarket.
Yvonne Whalen said she found a live spider in the grapes she purchased at a local supermarket.
A local expert said it was a dangerous black widow.
Whalen, from Dillsburg, said she bought the red grapes last week. On Thursday, she pulled them out of the fridge. While she was rising and eating them, she found the spider.
“The next thing I know, there was this leg coming up over a grape and needless to say I dropped by grapes in the sink,” Whalen said.
She put the creepy crawler in a plastic container and later that night a bug expert came to take a closer look.
“There’s no mistaking a black widow, even in a juvenile form like this. There is just enough there that you can really tell it’s a black widow,” Ryan “The Bug Man” Bridge said.
Bridge performs black widow removals.
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