Shopper finds hundreds of tiny spiders feared to be deadly Brazilian species in bananas
Declan King, 22, was horrified to find the spiders in the bug-ridden bag from his local store in Westhoughton, near Bolton, Lancs
A HORRIFIED shopper found hundreds of tiny spiders in a bag of Tesco bananas - which he fears to be a deadly Brazilian species.
Declan King picked up the bug-ridden bag at his local store in Westhoughton, near Bolton, Lancs and was shocked to find the bananas were not alone inside.
Crawling around the bag were hundreds of tiny arachnids, which Declan fears could be the deadly Brazilian Wandering Spider often found in the fruit.
The disgusted 22-year-old immediately took the bag back to the shop to complain, but says staff would only take the bag back and give him a pound to cover the cost.
He told the Mirror: "They weren't bothered, they didn't even check any of the other packs of bananas for other spiders."
Horrified Declan had already eaten two of the Cameroon-exported bananas and was peeling a third when he noticed the creepy-crawlies inside.
He fears he could have given a spider-laced snack to his baby boy Bailey, who he usually feeds bananas daily.
Declan put the bananas in a plastic lunchbox after making the horror discovery, where he says the spiders began to spin a web.
After returning the bag to Tesco's Farnworth store, staff bagged the dodgy goods up to send to their head office for testing.
Declan will get the results back in 14 days time.
Brazilian Wandering Spiders, also known as Banana Spiders, have been found in British bananas from Cameroon before.
Their bite can cause serious injury, such as swelling, paralysis, heart attacks and even death from asphyxiation.
The killer creepy-crawlies, which hold the Guinness World Record for being the most venemous spider in the world, can grow up to five inches long.
A Tesco spokesman said: "We sell millions of bananas every week and our growers work hard to clean and inspect all the fruit carefully.
"However, given the freshness of our produce this sort thing can happen on very rare occasions. We will update Mr King on the findings of our investigation."
They said no further complaints have been made about the batch or any other bananas.
Iceland shopper Samantha Frampton found an infestation of the deadly spiders in a 99p bag of bananas last year.
The mum-of-two nearly fed her four-year-old son Logan one of the potentially lethal snacks before spotting the creepy-crawly.
An Iceland spokesman said at the time the matter was being dealt with by their head office.
Westhoughton and Farnworth stores declined to comment on the find.