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A black widow spider in my herb box

April 27, 2016 5

Strangely I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black widow (button) spider before. Now I discover that there’s one living in my herb box. Discovery made when we found it preying on a carpenter bee stuck in it’s web. Not entirely comfortable with this fact as I now read that their venom can be fatal to children. PS, the first …

A South African wife, poet and mother. Sula was the founding member of the Durban Live Poets Society (LiPS) in 1995 which she headed until leaving Durban in 2000. She has had journal extracts published in Fair Lady Magazine and in the anthology “Glass Jars Among Trees” and her poetry, for which she has won several prizes, has been published in various South African and international anthologies. Sula is a loving mother to 4 children and loves hiking, the outdoors, reading, writing, cooking, baking and sewing. (written by my husband :) ) You can e-mail Sula at sula1968@gmail.com