Nature & Environment

Black widow spiders hitch ride on plane

By T.K. Randall
August 13, 2011 ·  25 comments

Image Credit: Charaj An engineer had been working underneath the engine when one of the spiders appeared. "One of his colleagues had noticed that a black spider had appeared out of the bottom of the engine frame and was reared up on his back legs. So we pulled everybody off the engines at that point," said managing director Stuart Elliott. The find reiterates concerns over the possibility of spiders and other species being inadvertantly transported to other countries.

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