The spider was found in a bunch of bananas from Waitrose (Picture: Daily Mail)

A huge spider whose venom is the deadliest in the world was found lurking in a bunch of bananas in a Waitrose home delivery – along with an egg sac pulsing with thousands of babies

Waitrose store workers came to London father Tim’s home and attempted to trap the six-inch-wide arachnid, but it tore its own leg off to escape and scuttled off into the family home in search of prey.

Police refused to deal with the deadly spider – leaving the couple and their two young sons, aged seven and eight, to flee their home for days until it was caught, according to the Daily Mail.



The Brazilian Wandering Spider’s venom will kill in minute amounts, causing a lingering death from paralysis, with victims often sporting painful erections caused by the toxin as they die in agony.


Even if victims are given antivenom in time, they can be left permanently impotent.

The spider is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most venomous (Picture: Daily Mail)

Also known as the banana spider, the creature is named in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most venomous, and is so big it lives on mice and crickets.

The bite of the Brazilian Wandering Spider causes agonising pain, paralysis, impotence and death (Picture: Wikimedia Commons)

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The beast attempted to attack pest controllers when it was finally cornered.

Waitrose had sent store workers to deal with it, but the workers had to call for help when they saw the egg sac.

Tim, who chose to withhold his surname, said that he had been cooking breakfast when the Waitrose van dropped his shopping off, and he saw the spider in a bunch of bananas.

Tim said, ‘We were terrified. We got ourselves and our kids out of the house straight away.’

Waitrose said: ‘The safety of our customers is our absolute priority. We did everything we could to look after our customer during what was a distressing incident and we’ve apologised personally. Although this is highly unusual, we’re taking it very seriously and will be working with our supplier to minimise the risk of this happening again.’

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