Guested Account Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 (edited) 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! 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-forced-to-flee-home-after-deadly-south-american-spiders-start-hatching-out-of-sainsburys-bananas-4172230/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487042/Mother-finds-deadly-Brazilian-spiders-nest-banana.html Edited November 5, 2013 by J7Dadda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 Good thing I don't like bananas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 My entire life I have never known anyone who doesn't like bananas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Well now you've met one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrensh Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 I love bananas, but luckily I come from a country with killer monster spiders so I ain't scared of finding one in my bag of bananas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 I love bananas, but luckily I come from a country with killer monster spiders so I ain't scared of finding one in my bag of bananas I ain't even going near the bananas display in the produce section of the ding ding store. QUESTION: Did this lady not look at the bananas before she picked a bunch off the produce display shelves? When you buy fruits and produce, you always want to check for blemishes and freshness and possible rotted parts. You don't just grab the first one on top of the stack and put it in the cart! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrensh Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 The bananas may have already packed in a plastic bag, so she might not have been able to see them properly. I bought some bananas when I went to the shop earlier, but they didn't come with any spiders. Nuts, I wanted some adorable fuzzy little pets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Nuts, I wanted some adorable fuzzy little pets What? They will bite you and kill you! I bet you had some venomous Spiders in S.A.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrensh Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Yeah, we had some pretty scary spiders in SA. One time a giant mouse-sized spider crawled up onto one of our dining room chairs and sat on the back. We decided that the spider could have the chair if it wanted it so badly, so we picked up the chair and put it outside and locked the door Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 We have brown recluse spiders here. That's why we put our shoes upside down when we take them off. Their bites causes your own flesh to start devouring itself with crazy enzymes. The effect usually doesn't start until days after the bite. Amputations after necrosis triggered by a brown recluse bite are not uncommon. Usually with good medical treatment they just leave you with horrible scarring and sometimes muscular atrophy. Do not do a Google image search for these spider bites. They will give you nightmares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted November 8, 2013 Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 We have brown recluse spiders here. That's why we put our shoes upside down when we take them off. Their bites causes your own flesh to start devouring itself with crazy enzymes. The effect usually doesn't start until days after the bite. Amputations after necrosis triggered by a brown recluse bite are not uncommon. Usually with good medical treatment they just leave you with horrible scarring and sometimes muscular atrophy. Do not do a Google image search for these spider bites. They will give you nightmares. now I really hate bananas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted November 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 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/pa-woman-finds-live-black-widow-spider-grapes-article-1.1526979 http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5051/20131123/black-widow-spiders-found-red-grapes-local-supermarkets.htm http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/11/black-widows-found-in-supermarket-grapes-in-several-states/#.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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted November 24, 2013 Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 I'm sticking to cans and fruit cups lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted November 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 (edited) I'm sticking to cans and fruit cups lol You don't get as much vitamin and protein with the canned and cups fruit. Also, they are loaded with sugar and preservatives. Edited November 24, 2013 by J7Dadda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted November 25, 2013 Report Share Posted November 25, 2013 They make sugar free fruit cups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted October 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Another ONE! I am never buying Bananas again! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2798570/family-s-terror-world-s-deadliest-spider-trapped-waitrose-home-delivery-gnaws-leg-esacpe.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 I bet that bowl was full before he got in there and he was too full to get out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted October 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 (edited) Happy Halloween 2014!!! Edited October 31, 2014 by J7Dadda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted November 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 YIKES!! http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29878047 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted September 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 With Halloween coming up.... https://www.slashgear.com/massive-1000ft-spider-web-appeared-overnight-in-greece-19546474/ https://www.euronews.com/2018/09/19/in-pictures-eerie-spiderweb-covers-entire-shoreline-in-greece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Wow that might be the spiders world wide web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted September 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 11 minutes ago, Tom@LCO said: Wow that might be the spiders world wide web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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