A fishing spider (Dolomedes facetus) is pictured with a captured fish (genus Xiphophorus) in a garden pond in Brisbane, Australia in this undated handout photograph. Spiders from at least five different families prey on small fish in the wild, according t
A fishing spider (Dolomedes facetus) is pictured with a captured fish (genus Xiphophorus) in a garden pond in Brisbane, Australia in this undated handout photograph. Spiders from at least five different families prey on small fish in the wild, according to a review published June 18, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. Researchers documented this wide-ranging palate in a study published on Wednesday detailing how at least two dozen species of spiders on every continent but Antarctica eat small freshwater fish that often exceed them in size. Reuters

The eggs of one of the world's most venomous spiders, Brazilian wandering spiders, were found hidden in a bunch of bananas that a woman had purchased from Tesco in Essex.

Initially, when Abby Woodgate, 30 years of age, saw the bananas she assumed that it was mouldy as it had a white lump after it was delivered to her. When she tried poking around the lump with a toothpick, immediately the cocoon broke open, inside which were dozens of tropical eggs, reported Telegraph.com.

Her immediate reaction was to throw the fruit in the bin. However, when a few of the tropical eggs fell on her kitchen floor, she decided to vacuum the floor clean. When it dawned on her, she jumped and threw it. She thought it looked like frog spawn and was nothing worse than that.

When Abby contacted the Tesco store, she was told that they would come to collect the bananas. Later, they called up saying that they would send pest controllers instead. The woman later tried cleaning it up with the help of her vacuum cleaner, but then had to be taken away by the pest control experts hired by the supermarket as they said that anything that came in contact with the eggs needed to be burned.

The pest controllers had asked her where the eggs were and she told them that it was the bin to which they replied that they would take that. Then they asked her if anything else had come in contact with the eggs and then she told them that she had used her vacuum cleaner to clean up the eggs which dropped on the floor, to which again they replied that they would take it with them.

Mrs. Woodgate was told that the pest controllers thought they were tropical spider eggs. She continued that she was so shocked when the cocoon opened and assumed that she would just get the mould off and then use the rest of the bunch.

A Tesco Store in Kent, in November last year, was forced to close down for a couple of hours after they found a Brazilian wandering spider under a box of bananas.