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Was Navy Shipyard Target Of Biological Warfare? Who Shipped Black Widow Spiders With Launch System Electronics?
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 18:46
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A Navy shipbuilder in Maine says it had to fumigate a warehouse and part of a warship because a shipment of parts from the West Coast contained about two-dozen venomous black widow spiders.
Bath Iron Works employees discovered the arachnids in a crate containing vertical launch system components. Spokesman Jim DeMartini said Tuesday the discovery led to the fumigation of several compartments in the USS Michael Murphy, a destroyer that's under construction. A warehouse in Brunswick also was fumigated.
DeMartini says the spiders were discovered earlier this month. The shipyard is confident exterminators eliminated any spiders that weren't stomped. MORE
I had to fumigate an entire aircraft service hangar because an albanian airways aircraft that came in for a service was absolutely infested with blatta germanicus (german cockroach) I had to put down nearly two thousand sticky pads (monitors) for a week.