World’s Deadliest Spider Found In Whole Foods In Tulsa. (Huff Post)
TULSA, Okla. — One of the most deadly spiders in the world has been found in the produce section of a Tulsa grocery store. An employee of Whole Foods Market found the Brazilian Wandering Spider Sunday in bananas from Honduras and managed to catch it in a container.
The spider was given to University of Tulsa Animal Facilities director Terry Childs who said this type of spider kills more people than any other.
Childs said a bite will kill a person in about 25 minutes and while there is an antidote he doesn’t know of any in the Tulsa area.
I kinda like spiders, so my on-again/off-again boycott of Whole Foods is, for the time being, OFF.
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March 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Duddles
I worked at a food coop in Buffalo, NY last summer, and a black widow spider made it’s way out of a box of red bell peppers (that were from the Dominican Republic) in the walk-in cooler. A coworker did the same thing and caught it in a plastic container, and the spider now lives at the Buffalo Museum of Science!