Deaths are rare because an anti-venom is readily available wherever this spider is common..................
Posted on 07/27/2017 6:09:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
A family have been left terrified after fearing one the world's deadliest spiders has taken residence in their home after entering Britain in a bunch of bananas.
Michaela Egan, 24, from Rainham, Essex, noticed a suspicious white spider cocoon on a bunch she bought had from her local Tesco four days earlier and took a picture of it.
She posted the image on her Facebook page and friends suggested it could be a Brazilian wandering spider, whose venom gives male victims a painful four-hour erection before killing them.
The mother-of-two immediately put it in a sealed bag and returned it to the Rainham store where staff offered her a full refund before sending the banana off to be tested.
But Ms Egan ... is concerned the spider may have laid eggs and baby spiders could have hatched in her home.
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The Brazilian wandering spider is known for building webbed nests on bananas and according to Guinness World Records, they are the most venomous arachnid on the planet.
The spiders got their name because they are known to wander the jungle floor at night, rather than residing in a lair or maintaining a web.
During the day they hide inside termite mounds, under fallen logs and rocks, and in banana plants.
Although the Brazilian wandering spider venom is the most toxic - with death occurring within two hours of a bite - an effective anti-venom is available and few fatalities occur.
Its venom is currently being studied for use in erectile dysfunction treatments after it was found that a bite from one of the spiders can give male victims a painful four-hour erection.
Jamie Robins, a conservation officer for wildlife charity Buglife, said Brazilian wandering spider nests are normally the size of half a snooker ball.
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Deaths are rare because an anti-venom is readily available wherever this spider is common..................
Atleast the male victims have ample warning, so there is time to seek help.
Are you happy to see me or is that a gun in your pocket?
Actually, I had a banana and there was this white thing on it that bit me and, well I don’t know but.
You Freepers!
YOU........
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> whose venom gives male victims a painful four-hour erection before killing them.
> with death occurring within two hours of a bite
So... the man still has an erection two hours after he's dead?
Better call the necrophiliac women... they'll want to hear about this...
??So what effects will one see/feel if there is nothing to erect?
Its venom is currently being studied for use in erectile dysfunction treatments after it was found that a bite from one of the spiders can give male victims a painful four-hour erection.
A possible side effect of death. Kind of harsh.
I hope he made proper use of those 4 hours!
Its venom is currently being studied for use in erectile dysfunction treatments after it was found that a bite from one of the spiders can give male victims a painful four-hour erection.
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Since death occurs in 2 hours how does one get a 4 hour erection?
Even when you get the anti-venom, which is commonly available wherever this spider is common, the ‘side effect’ remains............
Like the nurse said, “If you have a 4 hour erection, call me.”
Another erection oddity I read about somewhere is that as a man is hung to death on the gallows he gets an erection. Both the spider and the gallows are a helluva way to achieve one.
Does a recording of Hillary’s voice act as an antivenom or does it just cure the four hour side effect?
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damn you Zarguna !
Is that how the expression "well hung" originated?
Another side effect must be rapid rigor mortis.
“Since death occurs in 2 hours how does one get a 4 hour erection?”
They die within two hours of being bitten, with a four hour erection. Helluva way to go.
Die Hard.
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