Fears Over World's Deadliest Spider Shuts Down Supermarket

The venom in the world's deadliest spider can kill a human in a matter of hours, so it's no surprise that emergency services in England took swift action and closed a UK supermarket Thursday night after a family found the bag of bananas they bought contained Brazilian Wandering Spider eggs. The family, who says the bananas were purchased at a local Aldi store in Nuneaton, called local police. Their home is being fumigated and the grocery store was also closed for a time. Last week, a Brazilian Wandering Spider was found in a warehouse in Tamworth, Staffordshire, which is about 16 miles away from Nuneaton. Discovered near wooden pallets from South America, staff at Bristol Zoo said the female spider could have been the largest seen in the UK.