IS THE false widow craze a web of lies?Have we been spun a heap of untruths?Perhaps so, it now seems.
Experts and people working in the pest industry are today saying that the fever drummed up by certain sections of the national press is little short of hysterical.
Calls are flooding in from people worried about the near-harmless spiders – and many are being destroyed as a result.
Most of us are scared of spiders.
But maybe, just once in a while, we should give the creatures a break – and leave them to their cobwebs.
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