Contacting Asda Legal Team

mro85

Bit scary if you get bit, my wife would probably laugh at the 4 hour long side effects....

bod1467

mro85 wrote: »

my wife would probably laugh at the 4 hour long side effects....

So I read.

The spider's bite can cause an erection that sometimes lasts for up to four hours

:rotfl:

hollydays

It seems to me that perhaps the way this is making you feel , could be as a result of other traumatic experiences you have suffered making it doubly difficult to cope with?

hcb42

what damage has occurred? e.g. Bites?

what are you now perceiving as the risks?

Bantex_2

What do you expect Asda to do about it?

hollydays

hcb42 wrote: »

what damage has occurred? e.g. Bites?

what are you now perceiving as the risks?

I think it's emotional distress.

gik

The mummy spider is 10cm in size. I'm sure you'd have noticed it if it had been actually there.

peachyprice

wantoknow wrote: »

bought bananas with the most poisonous spider in the world in the bag

wantoknow wrote: »

I told them there was a huge sack and a few small ones.

wantoknow wrote: »

I got a picture of the egg sacks. T

So was there a spider or was there not a spider? I sounds like you only found egg sacks that, unless they are inspected by an entomologist could be from any spider, many look very similar and I doubt the Asda store manager could tell the difference between house spider eggs, black widow eggs or Brazilian wandering spider eggs.

hollydays

peachyprice wrote: »

So was there a spider or was there not a spider? I sounds like you only found egg sacks that, unless they are inspected by an entomologist could be from any spider, many look very similar and I doubt the Asda store manager could tell the difference between house spider eggs, black widow eggs or Brazilian wandering spider eggs.

I found this info online too


There are several reasons why fruit lovers should think twice before believing stories about scary spiders found in the produce aisle, Vetter told Live Science. For one thing, in this particular case, no spider was found hanging around the bananas, making it nearly impossible to know what kind of spider (if there even was a spider) had laid the enigmatic eggs.

"Egg sacks are much harder to identify than spiders. To identify them, you need familiarity with the spider first, then the egg sack," Vetter said. It's unlikely that British exterminators would be intimately familiar with the egg sacks of spiders from South and Central America, he added.

However, it is possible that the eggs in question belonged to an arachnid, Vetter said. There are several genera of spider that sometimes survive the long trip from banana-producing nations — such as Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua and Costa Rica — to other parts of the world. Among them are Phoneutria and Cupiennius, two types of spiders that are commonly known as wandering spiders.

Wandering spiders are named for their tendency to wander around looking for food instead of spinning a web. As nocturnal hunters, both Phoneutria and Cupiennius sometimes seek out shelter during the day under the broad leaves of banana trees. And because of their preference for these fruit trees, species of both genera at times wind up in grocery stores and residences in Europe and North America, Vetter said.

Typically, when one of these big, hairy spiders shows up overseas, it automatically gets labeled as a "deadly" Brazilian wandering spider without anyone identifying what genus or species the spider belongs to, Vetter said. And that's a shame, he said, because only one of the two genera of wandering spiders, Phoneutria, contains species that could actually pose a threat to humans. The other genus, Cupiennius, contains some big, but totally harmless, spiders.

"There are 12 species of Phoneutria, which are found mostly in South America, including the eastern coast of Brazil. A small number of them also go into Costa Rica," Vetter said. However, few of these spiders pose a significant risk to humans, he added.

Still, there is a type of Brazilian wandering spider, called Phoneutria fera, that is widely considered to be the most dangerous spider on Earth. The species lives in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, far from banana-producing areas. While it isn't impossible for this spider to find its way to England or other foreign nations inside a banana crate, it's highly unlikely, Vetter said.

British report seem unlikely. Brazilian wandering spiders are only found in Brazil, and the country consumes most of its banana crop domestically, Vetter said.

"I don’t know where England gets its bananas from, but Brazil does not export many bananas," Vetter said. If the bananas in question came from Ecuador — the world's largest exporter of bananas — or any other banana-producing nation, then those eggs didn't belong to one of the "deadly" species of Brazilian wandering spiders, he added.

sheramber

What, apart from moving house, would lessen the emotional upset?

What would make you feel better?