Remember that huge scare we had last November when deadly Brazilian spiders were found lurking in bananas? Well, I have bad news. A man in the U.K. found MORE deadly Brazilian spiders in a batch of bananas he bought and had NO idea until their eggs started hatching. The 31-year-old father, Jamie Roberts, who suffers from arachnophobia (the fear of spiders), thought the white patch on his bananas were mold. Only he came to find out that it was something WORSE.
This story sounds all too similar to the woman who found the creepy crawlies in her own fruit.
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The father bought a batch of bananas from a local market but days later he noticed that there was a white patch on them. What he assumed was mold all of a sudden broke open and hundreds of spiders crawled out of it. He feared they were the deadly Brazilian spiders that were found once before and called pest control.
He, his wife Crystal, daughter and son were told to evacuate the home while pest control fumigated the spiders out. They concluded that they were the Brazilian spiders that had plagued bananas once before.
Roberts who is petrified of spiders claims he thought they were dead until he saw hundreds of them coming out of the white patch. The bananas had been placed by the window sill in the kitchen. He noticed that the patches on the bananas he thought were mold, resembled that of the ones on his window curtains. That's when the creepy crawlies made their way out infesting his home.
After contacting the store he bought the bananas from, they cooperated and made sure to arrange the pest control visit and to pay for the family's temporary hotel stay. They too find it a mystery how these spiders made their way into their produce.
I think the lesson of this story is that we should NEVER assume white patches on bananas are mold. This was the same thing the first women who found the Brazilian spiders in her bananas thought and look at how that ended. I think we all need to double check our produce when we go grocery shopping because the last thing we want is unwanted "guest" infesting our homes.
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