To be a bit freaked out by this banana ....

[SunshineHQ]

.... was just about to peel it, and then saw this weird cocoon thing growing on it.

Wider family all here, and opinions vary as to what it is ....

Lots of baby spiders? (100s)
Just one big spider?
Something else?

And what should we do? Dad (who lived for a year in Africa) thinks they will very likely be poisonous, and microwave or boiling water?

I'm glad those outraged and holding vigils for the poor dead baby mould spiders have their priorities straight. There's been a women's march today, American society is collapsing, our NHS is on its last legs, full time working nurses need to use food banks, the welfare state is fucked, people with illnesses and disabilities are dying and suicidal and having shit lives, the planet is warming up, the bees are dying, fuckwit terrorists are lurking like lingering farts in our cities and the Kardashians continue to breed.

But a woman on the internet has boiled a banana, so lets lose our shit of the potential death of some potentially deadly arachnids who potentially were already dead.

Please, Spider Defenders Of The Internet, continue. You are making my night. Has anyone posted 'won't someone think of the leggy little bastards?' yet?

Brazilian wandering spiders are not "banana spiders" while they do give men painful erections, they're also "wandering" spiders. The clue is in the name, they don't spin webs. Most, if not all banana insect debris is discarded or already dead. Most spiders in South America will not kill you, small ones are as deadly or as harmless as a British house spider. If your bananas come from Australia though. .....burn them

andpeggy1 put it into a container like the majority of posters said

Well said Fromage couldn't have put it better myself

Those of you pearl clutching over a fucking boiled banana need to get grip

OP, ignore them.
Banana spider mutants must be boiled.

You agree with killing babies when you eat your lamb dinner and drink your milk made for baby calves. Fuck off getting sanctimonious over a spider.

I don't eat lamb and I don't drink cows milk either, also no wailing over babies here. Also dirty hypocrite for speaking my own views is hilarious thanks.

They wrote about those banana spiders in our local newspaper, it said if they bite a man they will never get another erection again.

www.mirror.co.uk/science/die-hard-banana-spiders-cause-8494586

On the contrary, Brazilian wandering spiders cause a four hour erection apparently. Followed by death, but whatever.

You do realise OP that people pack bananas for a living, right here, in the uk, with no particular precautions to protect them against spider bites. Live tropical creatures in fruit is very rare, and there’s anti venom available, in the virtually unheard of event of a bite, it’s really not the big deal papers like to pretend it is.

They wrote about those banana spiders in our local newspaper, it said if they bite a man they will never get another erection again

I didn’t imagine I’d spend my Sunday evening pondering spider erections.

This is why I love Mumsnet.

LadyDeadPool
Calm down. You'll give yourself high blood pressure if you react like this to every post you don't like on the internet

Never buying bananas again. 100% would've boiled!

To be fair fromage that post could apply to a huge amount of posts on here..

Wait. What? The BEES are dying?

lol at calling in experts to the tupperware box of baby spiders or mould
(in MsHomeSlice's link, the Waitrose worker FROZE THE BABY SPIDERS TO DEATH)

I imagine the experts showing up like Ghostbusters, ready to trap the spider in a device which runs on nuclear fuel, in order to keep us all safe. Or, y'know, splat the little fuckers.

"Brazilian wandering spiders can cause a four hour erection apparently"
Erm .... OP, could I have that cocoon pls? 😀

*Sparklymagpie
*
What are you suppose to do with it once in a container? Can't keep it forever and if it's poisonous or deadly, I certainly wouldn't want it in my house!

Wait. What? The BEES are dying?
Yes. They’re doing it as a protest against Brexit.

Don’t cross the streams!

SomeOtherDay 😂 Spiders dragging their erections over laundry.

A 4 hour erection you say....? so, where do i get one of those spider fuckers then? DH could use a spider bite!

just take the photo to the shop as evidence. But I would seriously not be able to sleep in that house in case the mama spider was around and as mad as hell. bet she's like that big slimy thing in alien with the ovipository what not doodah..

peggy I’d have taken them somewhere to be checked out... university maybe?!

FucksBizz I was completely calm in my response hardly the one resorting to strange insults when I disagree with someone.

fromage I think most people have the mental capacity to be concerned about more than one things

Bees dying is a serious issue ....

andpeggy1 I'd be contacting someone who could verify or take it obviously

You should have taken it back to the store, I found this in a tub of grapes and took it in a container to customer services - who didn't look too happy to take it! I was refunded, sent a letter of apology and a £45 voucher.

I remember reading once that they freeze bananas when transporting in order for them to ripen in store. So they were probably dead anyway.

I reckon spiders dying would be a big issue too, if it got to the point were they may become extinct.