'Black widow' scare closes Wattisham air base buildings

[mhm]

A "suspicious spider" spotted in the bar of the officers' mess has forced part of a Suffolk air base to close.

Wattisham air base closed two of its buildings on Friday due to fears that a black widow spider was on the loose.

Last month a colony of the species was destroyed after it arrived in a crate of equipment from California.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-19950353

[viking9]

I remember a number of dangerous 'black widows' who used to hang around bars near airbases I served on.