What This Woman Found In Her Banana Makes Me Never Want Bananas
#1 Bananas
Maria Layton bought a bag of bananas from her local grocery store and found a giant spider cocoon when she opened the bag the next day.
#2 Funny Bit
"The first banana had a funny bit on it, so I got another one for her and that was when I found the massive spider cocoon," said Layton. "There was a spider web on the other bananas, too." said Maria Layton.
#3 Brazilian Wandering Spider
Maria closed the bag and turned to Google, where she determined that the creature was a Brazilian Wandering Spider, one of the deadliest insects in the world.
#4 Other Spider Facts
Brazilian Wandering Spiders have enough venom to kill an average human in 2 hours. These spiders also do not build webs. Instead they hide in dark places, making it not unheard of that they end up getting shipped with produce.
#5 Cocoon
Maria saw that the cocoon in the banana bag was beginning to unfurl, so she threw the bag in a box and put the box in the freezer to kill the spider.
#6 Hunters
Brazilian Wandering Spiders are natural predators and typically hunt at night when they're in the jungle.
#7 Tesco
The supermarket chain where Maria bought the bananas, Tesco, gave her a full refund. They are conducting a full investigation of the contaminated bananas.
