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

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.... 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?

So is allowing Invasive Species into the UK. Has no-one heard about Spanish Bluebells, and those weird carnivorous slugs, that no one had heard of until 5-8 years ago, but are now everywhere across the South East.

If I had followed the suggestion of letting it hatch within a sealed container, what were people suggesting I did with the tub of baby invasive spiders then?

That wasn't meant to sound confrontational - apologies if it did - but I'd be interested to know.

I personally would prefer to destroy a cocoon of unwanted eggs, rather than the same number of live spiders.

Obi
"All of the other spiders who were minding their own business and rubbing their willies on peoples darked on clothing will come and get you now "

Crying...

Just googled and apparently the Brazilian wandering spider can survive being boiled, frozen and microwaved for short periods

Crying....

I would definitely take the advice of someone who had lived in a deadly spider country over a load of idiots on the internet.

Fucking fucking fucking fuck.

What the actual fuck?

Boiling is too good for a potential bag of spiders. Argh!!!!

I remember reading once that they freeze bananas when transporting in order for them to ripen in store.

Nope, they are transported at 13-14 degrees C, then placed in airtight ripening rooms which are flooded with ethylene gas for 24 hours to start the ripening process. All retailers have different specs, but as a general rule bananas are at colour stage 2-3 (from a chart which goes from green-stage 1, to brown spotted- stage 7) when they are sent into store.

You boiled it? Op why didn't you call 101 and log it?

I’m loving all the banana experts coming out of the woodwork

Spiders from warmer climates wouldnt have survived here. You've done the kindest thing to the spiders, the food chain and to humans. Just drop Sainsbury's a little email and tell them.

I’m loving all the banana experts coming out of the woodwork

Yeah, it’s almost like some people work in the industry or something!

omgin

I was actually being serious I didn’t know any of these facts about bananas!

Just googled and apparently the Brazilian wandering spider can survive being boiled, frozen and microwaved for short periods

Some people have waaaay too much time on their hands but I bet they cannot survive being squashed under a Brazilian wandering boot!

This millennial doesn’t leave the house to return something that can’t be resold. Quick pic and a tweet/email/fb and money is refunded and I don’t have to find a bra to put on so I can leave the house. Retailers don’t want it back, I can pop it in the food recycling, everybody’s happy.

I like them as they eat flies and flies are disgusting and spread disease. We would be stuffed without spiders
Would we? I mean there would be no 4 hour erections so how ?

whats happened to it now op

i cant stand spiders

Just to clarify Basseting, not you that has too much spare time but the insane person that boiled, froze and microwaved the world's most aggressive and venomous spider!

So ... could you make out what was in the cocoon OP?

I think i'd have wanted to know. So as to know whether to worry about an adult something being loose in the house or not.

I was actually being serious I didn’t know any of these facts about bananas!

Then I apologise for my sarcasm..

What the fuck no way am I buying bananas again!!

Not not me, just a quick google...

I couldnt boil alive anything, or microwave anything living.

I could freeze a venomous spider I think but I'd have to be in the same room/village/city to catch the bugger and that is not likely as I am a total wuss about them, esp the gallopy fuckers that appear each year in August, clattering across my hard floor in their hobnail boots.
If they bit as well (hyperventilates). Not buying bananas for a bit!

Ronniescue, I'm a bit  at quite how angry you sound. I hope you're OK.

I'm fine, thanks. Just to clarify though, I am not angry, I just can't get over how stupidly this banana was dealt with.

Just to clarify though, I am not angry, I just can't get over how stupidly this banana was dealt with.

The above sentence has struck me as very funny (sorry)

This is probably the best thread I’ve read this weekend.

I am a committed vegetarian. I’d still nuke the hairy legged little f**rs. Twice. I think the OP should give the boiled banana a few minutes in the microwave to be sure.

And to whoever posted the spider bursting out of the banana video, I will never be able to eat one again and I know it’s my own bloody fault for watching it

Just read this whilst try to get DD2 back to sleep and snorted so loudly at the phrase 'how stupidly this banana was dealt with' that I've not only woken up DD2, but also DD1, DH and possibly my lovely elderly neighbours (we're detached by the way and they live at least 1/2 a mile down the road).
Still laughing now!