Tuesday 11 March 2014

Bananas with a twist

You're in the store, and as a last item you pop some bananas in your cart. You come home, hang out with the wife and kids and reach for one of those bananas. When all of the sudden you see a swarm of spiders cascade out of the yellow fruit. Sounds like a horror movie?

Well for Jamie and Crystal Roberts from Hednesford, Staffordshire that is exactly what happened. On a day like any other Jamie had purchased a bunch of Bananas from the onestop around the corner, he had noticed a white patch on them before he purchased the Bananas but dismissed as a bit of dirt or moss.

He deposited the Bananas by a window sill, and when he went to get one he noticed hundreds of little spiders swarming the bananas and by this time his window.


He called up the store manager who told him to get out of the house and call pest control. Probably a really good idea since after doing some research on the web Crystal realized that the spiders where Brazilian Wandering Spiders, or if you wish to call them by their scientific name "Phoneutria Nigriventer"
In Greek, phoneutria means the murderess. This name was given due to the highly deadly venon these spiders contain, the bite of one can conduce to heart failure, and even death on a human. 

Thankfully the couple's children Georgina 7 and Joshua 5 were not harmed by the spiders. 

To make matters worse Jamie suffers from arachnophobia, which is the fear of spiders, so I doubt he will be buying any Bananas soon.  

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