http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052712/Worlds-deadliest-spider-discovered-Britain-inside-box-Tesco-bananas.html"The world's deadliest spider forced a supermarket to close after a terrified worker spotted it under a box of bananas.The highly-venomous Brazilian Wandering Spider - a species responsible for killing more people than any other arachnid - was eventually captured by RSPCA officers.Victims usually die within an hour of being bitten by the spider, which has a 4in leg-span and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the planet's most venomous animal.It's scientific name is Phoneutria nigriventer - the first element is Greek for 'murderess' - but it is also known as the banana spider because of its habit of stowing away in shipments of the fruit."
enjoy your spiders britfags
>listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the planet's most venomous animal.hahaha
Hmm, according to this article it's only #2.http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/the-worlds-5-most-venomous-species/697
FUCK now I'm afraid to eat the banana I just got. Thanks /an/, thanks a lot. God I hate spiders..
According to Fox News, its a natural viagra that leads ultimately to impotence.Do it.
>>304151stonefish? at number 5? fuck off, i don't think anyone in australia has been killed by that. most venomous fish it may be, but more venomous than a coastal taipain, funnelweb spider, mamba, cobra, sea snake?
>>304308I could swear that I read once about a species of conch that spears you if you step on it, and that spear contains a neurotoxin so powerful you're dead before you even feel the wound. But it seems like I'm imagining things.
>>304312you are thinking of cone snails, the rest is highly exaggerated, though you will die soon, but not instantanious
>>304342Ah. Gotcha.
>>304312"Walkin' on the beach ba-rloop-ba-doo""Steppin' on the beach ba-rloop-ba-HNNNNNGH"
>>304119That's no Brazilian wandering spider, that's a brown recluse.
>The spider was humanely put down by the RSPCACan someone please explain this to me?
>>304369Because it's a hairy little eight-legged KILLING MACHINE and in England if you're over 40 you just love killing shit that's remotely threatening
>>304349I used to be so paranoid about stepping on those things when I lived in Australia. Saw a couple live ones too.
>>304369They smacked it with a rolled newspaper.
Can anyone tell me what this is (if it is a real spider)?It was in the background of a tv show and I just got freaked out like hell...
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/the-worlds-5-most-venomous-species/6972. Brazilian Wandering Spider"The venom can cause priapism, an erection that wont go away and might actually cause impotence."
>>304393It looks more like a tailless whip scorpion, or amblypygid. An arachnid, yes, but not a spider.
>>304393African cave spider.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGZob3w8VLk
>>304398>an erection that ... might actually cause impotence
>>304370I'm shocked that the source was the Daily Mail but there was no comments about the fact the spider should be hanged as a warning to all other youthful bad-behaved arachnids
>Phoneutria nigriventer>nigriventer>nigriHaha