Miller workers discover deadly black widow spider in a box

Factory workers at attachments firm Miller got a shock when a deadly black widow spider crawled out of a delivery box.

Startled staff at the bucket attachment manufacturing firm in Cramlington, Northumberland, managed to corner and trap the poisonous spider in a plastic box.

They then took it to Durham University for experts to study.

The black widow spider is usually found in Canada and the United States and has venom 15 times more potent than a rattlesnake.

Dean Gibson, one of the workers who discovered the spider told the BBC: “We used the internet to identify it and were quite shocked when we found out what it was.”

Despite their toxic venom, death from a black widow spider bite is rare.