My husband is a produce manager for a grocery store here. About a year ago they found a spider in the bananas...they kept it as a pet, bringing in crickets, flies and other insects for it to eat. The spider was recently handed over to a local University to determine what it was. The guys are lucky none of them were ever bitten by it!!! My husband said the spider would literally attack the insects and kill them.
So...be real careful when you go to pick up bananas!!
Posted by Hawkeye (Member # 88) on :
WOW - the problem as I see it, if there was one, there might be more! YikeSS!
Posted by gauSSian (Member # 2027) on :
wow! lucky those guys didn't know what they were keeping, otherwise they might have been bitten! Posted by Quasar99SS (Member # 709) on :
Day me say day me say day me say day o (daylight come and me wanna go home) A beauitful bunch of ripe banana! (daylight come and me wanna go home) hide the deadly black tarantula! (daylight come and me wanna go home) lift six foot seven foot eight foot bunch! (daylight come and me wanna go home) six foot seven foot eight foot bunch! (daylight come and me wanna go home)
Posted by 2002Z4CSS (Member # 1393) on :
I guess your husband was very lucky he never got bit. Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :
quote:Originally posted by Quasar99SS: A beauitful bunch of ripe banana! (daylight come and me wanna go home) hide the deadly black tarantula!
He's RIGHT!!! ....never knew those were the lyrics to that song.....eeeeeek!!!
Your hubby is very lucky, Pam!!
Posted by alfredf00_1673 (Member # 142) on :
Poor Crickets!
Posted by vyto2 (Member # 2265) on :
Nice of them to list any antidote... Posted by HotWheelSS aka HTWLSS (Member # 117) on :
quote:Originally posted by vyto2: Nice of them to list any antidote...
A common antidote appears to be "Death".
Posted by Camaro_Woody (Member # 1619) on :
I like the last line....Don't get bitten. Were these spiders in aracnaphobia (how ever it is spelled?)
Posted by NATESS (Member # 982) on :
OMG! about 10-12 years ago, my best friend and his mom when to the grocery store, and when his mom picked up a bunch of bananas, there was huge spider underneith. the produce manager let them keep it. he said that it looked like a banana spider and had only seen one other in his life. after looking at the pic, that is definitely the same spider that they had. we kept it in a glass jar with holes in the top and fed it insects. it lived for about 6-7 months. how scary! we had no idea that it was that poisonous. Posted by twobratSS (Member # 2180) on :
First I was arachnaphobic (sp?), now I'm banana-phobic! WOW!
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hide the deadly black tarantula! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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