UK schoolgirl finds nest of spiders inside banana
Hannah John, a 17-year-old Olchfa pupil, made the discovery yesterday morning when she examined the fruit, taken into school for a healthy snack, while sat in her registration class.
She said: “I took a banana into school and was going to have it in the morning but I spotted something. There was a hole in it and inside there were around 80 tiny spiders.
“I did let out a scream. It was horrible and I hate spiders.”
Fortunately the spiders were not able to scurry away as they were dead.
Hannah added: “My teacher told me to put it in the bin — but not the bin in her classroom.”
The loaded banana was given to Hannah by her well-meaning father.
She said: “I was given the banana by my dad, I think he bought it from a supermarket in Fforestfach. When I told him he was a bit shocked but then he laughed.”
Classmate Georgia Davies added: “It was horrible. It looked like it was just a bit of tissue paper but when you looked closer you could see lots of legs inside the hole. It was disgusting.
“Our form teacher is also a biology teacher and when she came over she knew exactly what it was.”
While the girls have not been able to identify the spiders, one of the most deadly species of the insect is fond of nesting inside bananas.
Supermarkets source bananas from Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Colombia, home to some of the world's most venomous spiders.
Source: southwales-eveningpost.co.uk
