Deadly Spider Found in Grocery Store

TULSA, Okla. (March 19) - 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 says this type of spider kills
more people than any other.
Childs says 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.
Spiders often are found in imported
produce, and a manager at Whole Foods
says the store regularly checks its goods
and that’s how the spider was found.