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...itinerant South American spider is the newest menace to basement prowlers at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, according to a prominent arachnologist...
...spider is venomous, with a bite that opens an ulcerous wound in the victim's skin. The injury is localized but usually slow to heal. As yet, no humans have been reported bitten by the species which avoids contact and attacks only when touched or trapped...
...arachnid is related to the "brown spider" known as a public nuisance in Kansas and Oklahoma. How Loxosceles Laeta arrived here and how far it has spread is unknown, since it resembles certain domestic spiders...
Riots break out in Harvard Yard as freshmen returning from Christmas vacation discover that their rooms are infested with loxasceles laeta, poisonous Latin American spiders escaping from the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. President Pusey announces that his Asian trip has converted him to "high-caste" Hinduism, and that "there will be no repressive measures taken against our little spider brothers." Acting on his orders to prevent violence, University Police crush the riot with tear gas and truncheons, driving the freshmen back into their spider-infested dorms...
...Herbert Levi, the museum's associate curator of arachnology, and one of the world's leading spidermen, discovered the first laeta lurking in a cabinet of dead myriapods (millepedes and centipedes) in September 1960. Levi promptly identified the male spider, but he paid no further attention, thinking the laeta was a lonely stowaway that had come to town in a shipment of South American zoological specimens. Not until last month did Harvard zoologists realize that laetas had made the museum their U.S. beach head. Delighted students discovered that the basement was alive with venomous spiders, many of them...