Debbie Campbell finds spider eggs in Tesco banana (Picture: SWNS)

A mum has told how she nearly fed a banana riddled with Brazilian wandering spider eggs to her baby.

Debbie Campbell says she spotted a clump of white eggs on the fruit she was about to give to 18-month-old Albie.

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The beauty therapist is terrified of spiders and screamed when she suddenly realised the white mark on the fruit looked identical to nests laid by the world’s most venomous spider.

She immediately returned the loose bunch bananas to the branch of Tesco where she bought them in Milton, Cambridgeshire, on Friday.


Ms Campbell, from Cambridge, said: ‘When I Googled it the first thing that came up was Tesco spider eggs and I didn’t even finished reading the story.

The banana was destined for 18-month-old Albie (Picture: BPM Media)

‘I screamed, grabbed my partner and said look at the banana and look at the picture and please tell me that’s not it.



‘I had heard of it before but I never expected to get it in mine. They need to check them more because it’s not as rare as some people are saying.’

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She was packing food for a family day out on Saturday when she spotted the spider nest.

After making the discovery she immediately put all the fruit she’d bought into a bag and returned them to the store.

‘I’m petrified of spiders and I couldn’t even think, I just wanted them out,’ she said.

Debbie sent it straight back to her local Tesco (Picture: SWNS)

‘To think that anything could have crawled of of that and get in my house, I would probably just moved.

‘My older son was saying sometimes the mother spider can hide in the nest and that made it even worse.’

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A Tesco spokeswoman said: ‘We sell millions of bananas every week and our growers work hard to clean and inspect all our fruit carefully.

‘However, given the freshness of our produce, this sort of thing can happen on very rare occasions.

‘We would like to apologise to Ms Campbell and will be investigating with our supplier.’

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