SALT LAKE CITY — Fall is spider migration season, but pest control companies are seeing even more than usual. And it’s especially concerning that one poisonous spider in particular is showing up more often: the black widow.

“We’ve definitely had a surge in calls about black widows,” said Kimball Pace, Service Manager with Peak Pest Control . “They’re moving around more, so people are seeing them more. And they’re also going to be eating a lot of food lately, so they’re probably going to be extra big.”

While it’s rare for a black widow bite to be fatal, it can be serious. Mark Jackman from American Fork is recovering from a black widow bite he got two weeks ago. He had a pair of shoes outside, he shook them out and knocked them on the floor before putting them on. But a spider still remai

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