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Reports on Britain's largest biotech company, Zeneca, which holds the patent to produce plants making poisons from the funnel web spider. Criticism that Zeneca's activities offer no benefits to subsistence farmers in developing countries; Threat of environmental hazards; Toxins to be used to help design effective insecticides.

The article reports on the warning from experts concerning the spread of the dangerous spider, the black widow, in Great Britain. It states that the spider is a purple and black creature carrying enough venom that can kill humans. According to the article, the spider established colonies in Devon, Dorset, and Cornwall. Since they do not survive in cold places, the spider migrates to other places because of tclimate change.