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A Navy shipbuilder in Maine says it had to fumigate a warehouse and part of a warship because a shipment of parts from the West Coast contained about two-dozen venomous black widow spiders. ... The shipyard is confident exterminators eliminated any spiders that weren’t stomped.

Students in a San Diego elementary school are getting a lesson in arachnophobia. Dozens of venomous black widow spiders have been found infesting classrooms in Pete W. Ross Elementary School, San Diego's KGTV reported. "The spiders... are coming out now from the bookshelves and the doorways and even up in the rafters," April Robertson, a third grade teacher at the school, told the station.

We just buried a 58 year old very healthy Amish man who died from a spider bite. I need some Freeper help as I am just an entomologisit. The question is: would any spider bite result in a large blood clot?