Brazilian Wandering Spider

Sister Alvear · #1 03-19-2009, 10:48 PM

Deadly Spider Found in Grocery StoreAP
posted: 1 HOUR 27 MINUTES AGOcomments: 0filed under: Animal News, National NewsPrintShareText SizeAAATULSA, Okla. (March 19) - One of the most deadly spiders in the world has been found in the produce section of a Tulsa grocery store.
An employee of Whole Foods Market found the Brazilian Wandering Spider Sunday in bananas from Honduras and managed to catch it in a container.

Sister Alvear · #2 03-19-2009, 10:50 PM

The Brazilian wandering spiders appear in the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 as the world's most venomous spiders and are the spiders considered directly responsible for most human deaths due to envenomation from spider bites. (wikipedia)

*AQuietPlace* · #3 03-19-2009, 10:55 PM

Ugh. Not good.

Maybe I'll stick with non-organic (pesticized!!) fruit and vegetables!!

Sister Alvear · #4 03-19-2009, 10:57 PM

they are very feared...

coadie · #5 03-19-2009, 10:57 PM

We are covered. The One as a prophet promised to overhaul our food safety program.
It will cost hundreds of buillions, put small producers out of business and cause the waste of food to feed a billion people but the ideology behind the vision is mind boggling. We will be dining on nirvanna salads.

RandyWayne · #6 03-19-2009, 11:05 PM

Not a good time to have stock in Whole Foods.

Although I MAY buy some in a week once the knee jerk selling has subsided.

coadie · #7 03-20-2009, 09:15 AM

TULSA, Okla. -- A spider that was found in a Tulsa grocery store may not have been as deadly as originally thought.

The spider found in a shipment of bananas at Whole Foods was taken Sunday to the University of Tulsa, where animal facilities manager Terry Childs identified it as a Brazilian wandering spider, considered one of the most lethal in the world.

But Barry Downer, the curator of aquariums and herpetology at the Tulsa Zoo, said video and photos he had seen of the spider led him to believe that it was a Huntsman spider, which is harmless to humans.

"There's pretty definitive evidence it has been misidentified," Downer said.

Childs said Wednesday night that he had destroyed the spider at the urging of a university administrator because of safety concerns.

Downer said the spider should have been preserved for study, but he was told that the body would not be made available.

"It doesn't make any sense to me why it wouldn't be saved," he said.

A school spokesman said Thursday that the university is looking into how and why the spider was destroyed.

MrsMcD · #8 03-20-2009, 09:17 AM

I despise spiders. I don't care if they are dangerous or not. I don't want any kind of spider near any food of mine.

Sister Alvear · #9 03-20-2009, 09:18 AM

well, I sure hope if it was they killed it....they are very dangerous. I have seen a few in my life time and killed them. I don´t like spiders...

Sister Alvear · #10 03-20-2009, 09:20 AM

I have heard of many insects getting shipped to the states in clothes, on vegggies etc...

I even remember hering a story about a snake bitting a women and her dying. It was in a shipment of coats from India I believe it was...