Black Widows in Red Grapes

By Kelly Wilkinson

Massachusetts – Poisonous black widow spiders have now shown up in at least four bags of grapes in Massachusetts. It's alarming for consumers, but food producers stress it's a minuscule number compared to total number of grapes sold. They say the spiders' appearance is because growers are using less pesticides. WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief Kelly Wilkinson reports.