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ST. CATHARINES, Ontario, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A deadly black widow spider survived a trip from California in a bunch of grapes and ended up in the kitchen of a startled Canadian veterinarian.
Tina Chivers, wife of Dr. Jeremy Chivers, said she began screaming Saturday as she washed the seedless red grapes and left them to dry in a sink in St. Catharines, Ontario, northwest of Niagara Falls.
She told the St. Catharines Standard that when she spotted the spider's telltale red hourglass marking, she let out a scream that brought her husband running.
He coaxed it into a capped jar and stored it well out of reach of their two children, 3, and 6, the couple said.
The veterinarian said he put a housefly into the jar, and has noticed the spider has begun spinning a web. He said he planned to contact the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to report the spider.
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