I know Halloween was last week but this is creepy!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/pictured-brazilian-wandering-spiders-found-2677844

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/deadly-spiders-found-supermarket-bananas-article-1.1505851

http://now.msn.com/brazilian-wandering-spiders-found-in-bananas-bought-at-sainsburys

http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/04/family-for...ananas-4172230/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...est-banana.html

My GOOGLE search show that this is not the first time venomous spiders have been found hiding in Bananas in the supermarket produce section.

I am never buying Bananas again!

I think I'm going to hurl....

Luckily they're going to the UK, we're safe..

Ok, my missus just got back from Tesco and brought some 'nanas, I think I better check them!

we get spiders in banannas up here now and then as well...plus an occasional small snake

Safer sticking with the unhealthy chocolate

Dark Chocolate is actually healthy for you.

Dark chocolate dipped Banana chips... Uuuuuuuuaaaaahhhh

(a brazillian wandering spiders is a condemned house anyway)

Spiders aside, get a banana slice it down the middle and put chocolate inside, wrap it up in tin foil and put it on the BBQ for a while 'till the chocolate melts and the 'nana is warmed through then carefully unwrap and eat with a spoon.

Good stuff!

I bought bananas from Sainsbury's last night. Checked them for white spots, seem to be in the clear.

I bloody hate spiders!

We got False Widow lurking in our area.Some poor guy nearly lost his leg because of a bite but I understand not everyone reacts to them the same.

If I see any spiders in my place they don't last long.

I knew about those wandering spiders stowing away in fruits. Never had to worry about that in the Philippines cause they produce their own bananas (need to erase that sense of complacency, one of the small things I miss about that country).

Happened to my wife in a convenience store when we lived in Worcester (Ombersley Road Chucky )
Oldest son, about 3 at the time pointed wide-eyed at her foot shouting; 'Spidook! Spidook! (3 year old interpretation of 'Spider! Spider!') She kicked it off a took a few steps squealing slightly; shopkeeper muttering something about silly women advances and then retires quickly on espying the large silvery-grey haired arachnid scuttling about sending customers off in all directions. Environmental Health was summoned and identified it as some sort of bird-eating species from Madagasgar, pretty harmless to humans.....even so.

Spiders are quite beneficial, they get rid of the not so nice undesirables that can be found in a home. (no, not the mother-in-law)

If she thought they were moldy then why the hell did she buy them?

I had a contract at Geest (banana importers and sellers) years back, and in reception there was a glass display frame about 4 foot square with with an example of all the creepy crawlies they'd found in the shipment - there was loads including the usual huge hairy monster variety.

Now even the Grapes are not safe!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/23/black-widows-grapes-us-supermarkets-midwest_n_4329380.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...ticle-1.1526979

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/...upermarkets.htm

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/11/bl...s/#.UpHAUcQ_vLM

http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/woman-finds-deadly-black-widow-spider-in-grapes/

First bananas, now grapes? No fruit is safe!

A Pennsylvania woman got quite the shock Thursday when she was washing some red grapes and felt her fingers brush up against something slimy. Yvonne Whalen saw a long spider leg creep over the top of one of the pieces of fruit and immediately dropped the colander into the sink.

A spider expert later confirmed what Whalen's initial Internet search revealed -- it was a young black widow crawling on the grapes.

The appetite-ruining find follows several similar instances of the deadly spiders found on grapes at supermarkets in Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin, Food Safety News reports.

Yvonne Duckhorn was inspecting a container of red grapes at a Aldi supermarket in Wauwatosa, Wis., earlier this month, when she spotted something peculiar.

"I saw the legs moving frantically," Duckhorn recalled to the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. "I've seen bugs on fruit before, and I thought, 'That is a very big spider.' Nothing I'd ever seen before."

Duckhorn wrapped the container in a plastic bag and handed it off to an employee, warning that she spotted a red marking on the spider's abdomen -- a common characteristic of Black widows. As a precaution, the chain opted to remove all grapes from stores in the Milwaukee area.

In another incident this month in Michigan, 20-year-old Callum Merry noticed a spider web in a bag of grapes purchased at a Kroger store in Brighton.

"I looked in the grapes and there was a black widow staring right at me," Merry told ABC affiliate WXYZ-TV. While Merry wanted to release the spider outside, fortunately, his 14-year-old recognized the danger and intervened.

Black widow spiders -- known for their red, hour-glass shaped insignia -- are venomous and their bite can be fatal, especially in small children and the elderly, without treatment. It's not uncommon for black widows to be found among grapes, since the spiders often build their webs in grape vineyards.

But, black widows are not the only venomous spiders that commonly found on fruits. Earlier this month, a family in the U.K. was forced to flee their home after venomous Brazilian wandering spiders were found on bananas bought at a local supermarket.

I love produce shipped from all over the place! get to meet new little critters. I wonder what the spider thought of all this?


EEEHHHHH humans..

Wait until one of those Black Widow bites you.

You won't be so cheerful then.

LOL!

I survived the out back of Kentucky. But I have never before OR sense seen that many black window spiders. Seemed like under ever rock was 5 or 6 of em. In the end your like 20000 times bigger and USUALLY only a REAL BIG issue (like kicking the bucket) if vary old/young or a real bad reaction. Still...I would not mess em.