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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At least he’d be the talk of the morgue. What a way to go.
“Wow, look at that stiff on the stiff...”
Could be, at the halfway point, his wife shot him in self-defense.
A beautiful bunch of ripe banana
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Hide the deadly black tarantula
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Four-hour woody. Death. Woody ... Death ...
Hold on. Let me think this through ...
Best version ever was Stan Freeberg’s, my introduction to the song, but this animation added a wonderful new dimension...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-TApnxnCTY
“Both the spider and the gallows are a helluva way to achieve one.”
Especially remembering waking up in a tent every morning when 13 with no fatal outcomes.
“At least he’d be the talk of the morgue. What a way to go.”
Hard to close the casket.
If it lasts for more than four hours, call a mortician.
Too bad it didn’t bite Harry.
” Four-hour woody. Death. Woody ... Death ...
Hold on. Let me think this through ..”
Does this mean every time a chubby happens one has to worry about dying?
Dr: “You have to suck the venom out of the penis or he will die. “
Victim: “What did the Dr say?”
Friend: “He wants to know if you have a Will”.
“They die within two hours of being bitten, with a four hour erection. Helluva way to go.”
Wouldn’t be the first time a boner at the wrong time and place got a man killed.
That line always bothered me, 'cause shipping ripe bananas by boat would make for a delivery of overripe or rotten bananas.
Available in England?
“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.”
That’s OK, I’ll stick with Viagra.
Only in bananas....................
>> Best version ever was Stan Freeberg’s <<
Didn’t like it. Too “piercing” for my taste.
“??So what effects will one see/feel if there is nothing to erect?”
You’ll notice that you have no conscience.
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