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Black widow spiders found among grapes

A woman has found two black widow spiders in a bunch of grapes bought from a supermarket - just weeks after another shopper found the deadly arachnid in produce purchased from an Aldi store.

Yvonne Whalen spotted the first spider when she was washing the grapes at her home in Pennsylvania, USA.

She had bought the fruit from a Giant Food Stores in the area.

Whalen told the York Daily Record: 'I saw the spider come up.I quickly dropped the colander and screamed. My first thought was to use a hose and force it down the drain into the garbage disposal.'

Whalen’s encounter with the poisonous spider didn’t end there, as she soon spotted a second one in the same bunch of grapes.

Luckily for her and her family, it was already dead.

An expert later confirmed the two spiders were black widows.

Earlier in the month, Yvonne Duckhorn also found one of the deadly arachnids in her grapes but this time they were purchased from an Aldi store in Wisconsin.

A bite from a black widow spider can kill a small child and paralyse an adult.

Meanwhile, the world's deadliest spider forced a branch of The Co-operative in Kent, UK, to close last week after a terrified worker spotted it under a box of bananas.

The highly-venomous Brazilian Wandering Spider - a species responsible for killing more people than any other arachnid - was eventually captured by RSPCA officers.

Co-op worker Kate Whitmore, of Chatham, found the spider while stacking banana boxes.

After alerting the RSPCA, who eventuallyhumanely put down the spider, the shop was closed for several hours while a search was conducted for signs of other Brazilian Wandering Spiders.