To ask what you do about cocoons on bananas?!

[jaseyraex]

This is a ridiculous question but no one in this house can agree with what to do and google is just giving me horror stories! There's a little white webby cocoon thing on one of our bananas, delivered by asda on Sunday. My DH says just bin it but I'm thinking what if it's filled with deadly spider eggs?! Shouldn't we let someone know about it? I don't want them hatching and running around our food waste bin. What would you do if you found a cocoon on your bananas? I think I might be over reacting

Would you really want to be the one who is responsible for adding a new species to arthropod class Arachnida by inter-breeding huge hairy evilminded types with local rather harmless ones?
Do you?

[hard stare]

I would take it outside and carefully open the cocoon with a small kitchen knife. Have a nosy at what's inside (if anything). (I am a total sporner, this is too good to pass up).

Then, put it all in a plastic bag, stamp on it hard, double bag it and throw it behind the garage at the bottom of the garden. Go inside for a brew. Job done.

Who has a spider farm?

And what for? Milk? Wool? Meat?

And what for? Milk? Wool? Meat?

Oh dear LORD.
Love the idea of spider wool though...

@Skittlesss

Thank goodness it's not just me

Spider farms sound like the stuff of nightmares. I vaccuum sealed a suspect banana with nest once, took it back to asda and was told they would deal with it, im wondering what they do with them when returned?

Wtf did I read this thread when I got jnto bed.

Lovely spidery dreams

On no account attempt to burst the cocoon.
The cocoon of a spider is so designed as to fire the occupants up to 5000 ft in to the air.
This ensures the spidies are scattered over a wide area,the better to make their killing fields as great as possible.
The lives of many thousands of people depend on your actions.

Give over Purplehammer

Tropical spiders wouldn't survive outside in our freezing temps either.

This has just reminded me that I was in a hurry to go out tonight so there is a spider lurking under a pot in my bedroom.

Hope it's still there...

@frankie001 sorry I couldn't resist

Baa baa spider, have you any wool?

Forbiddens whole post made me laugh, great writing.

skittless - you forgot to dispose of the vacuum cleaner - lovely warm cosy hatching place.

I've seen this on bananas a few times and didn't think much about it. Just peeled as usual and put skin in food recycling bin and ate banana.
Nothing bad happened.

Cally - dammit

Maybe it's marshmallow stuff.... not really .

What happened to the spider that was in your kitchen after the Tesco delivery OP?!!!!

It's all very well saying 'kill the spiders,' but it's a fact that other spiders will know that you have killed one of their own and they will want revenge and seek you out.

Sorry.

This thread is amazing

Put it in a big tupperware. Then wait and see!

Put on welder’s gloves, vacuum seal the banana. Put it in a plastic tub, and wrap with multiple layers of duct tape. Dig a hole (at least 3 feet deep) in somebody else’s garden and fill halfway with cement. Place tub in hole, and top up with remaining cement. Let’s see the little bastards get out of THAT.

Run screaming from the building. Call my mum and cry. (in my defence I was bitten by a false widow from a bunch of bananas and it was not a high point in my life.)