I was serving Little D his grapes earlier this week, when I found this!
A little desiccated from being in the fridge, but unmistakably a red-back spider in my bunch of (organic) crimson grapes.
EEK!
I let my supplier know, and their response was “At least you know it wasn’t sprayed!”
That I do.
But a little spray mightn’t have gone astray. How about some “only kills poisonous creatures” stuff?
Now I’m sure I’ll get over it, but if I find any blue-ringed octopi in my seafood or taipans in my tomatoes then I might need to put my foot down.
(but not near the tomatoes).
500m2 in Sydney 
WOW! That’s scary. I guess that’s how we came to spraying our food. :O
Jackie French in one book talked about how red-bellied black snakes enjoyed sleeping in her strawberry patch!
Oh dear. My 2 year old would be in serious trouble – he almost lives in the strawberry patch 🙂
When I was in London I sure I heard stories about tarantulas coming into the UK with the bananas. Personally I prefer produce without spiders on it. I wouldn’t have thought a bunch of grapes was a normal hiding place for a redback?
Weird, huh! I wouldn’t have expected it either. I used to find them until old bits of metal in the yard as a kid – they seem to like shelter. I would have thought that the grapes would be too exposed for them.