http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/031507/milk.html
Ever wondered how to milk a spider? In this video, Dr. Greta Binford, a researcher at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, extracts venom from a sleeping spider's fangs.
http://www.kgw.com/news/specialreports/stories//kgw_042707_special_news_spider_woman.146f5fbf.html
Greta
Binford, however, has slightly less cooperative subjects. Binford
collects venom from the world's most dangerous spiders. Binford jokes she has "the dream job of most 8-year-old boys. I sit and watch spiders catch bugs."
She specializes in the brown recluse spider and its 100 relatives.
Currently, her lab at Lewis & Clark College houses 600 spiders
collected in the U.S., Africa, Peru and elsewhere.
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