MAF Seeks Public's View On Grapes, Black Widow Spiders
Biosecurity and health officials are seeking the public's views on whether imports of American table grapes should be resumed. WELLINGTON 14/6/2002 - Biosecurity and health officials are seeking the public's views on whether imports of American ... [... more] HortNET New Zealand
Ministry Suspends Grape Imports After Black Widow Find
The Ministry of Agriculture has suspended grape shipments from a warehouse in California after a poisonous black widow spider was discovered in a storage warehouse in Feilding last week. WELLINGTON 27/8/2001 - The Ministry of Agriculture has ... [... more] HortNET New Zealand
HortNews - Black Widow Found In Grapes
A Kaitaia woman found a black widow spider in a bunch of grapes she bought from a store in the town on Thursday - the second black widow find in New Zealand in less than a month. WHANGAREI 17/9/2001 - A Kaitaia woman found a black widow spider in ... [... more] HortNET New Zealand
HortNews - Govt Rules Out Banning Grape Imports
The Government today rejected calls to ban the importation of Californian grapes following the discovery of a black widow spider in Auckland, the third such find in as many months. WELLINGTON 19/10/2001 - The Government today rejected calls to ... [... more] HortNET New Zealand
Third Black Widow Found In California Grape Imports
The third black widow spider in as many months has been found in a carton of California table grapes in Auckland. WELLINGTON 17/10/2001 - The third black widow spider in as many months has been found in a carton of California table grapes in ... [... more] HortNET New Zealand
Gordon Grice
Gordon Grice's writing about the black widow spider has appeared in High Plains Literary Review and Harper's. It has been anthologized in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Essays 1996 and in college readers. Grice teaches humanities and English at ... [... more] Random House
