In Bavaria: Supermarket manager discovers exotic spider in box - and catches it with a glass
Created: 05/14/2022, 17:15
By: Jennifer Lanzinger
Spiders, like this banana spider, keep coming to Germany in boxes.
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It is potentially poisonous and was discovered in a banana crate in a Bavarian supermarket: a Brazilian web spider.
The manager of the supermarket caught her with a glass.
Schönberg - The employees of a supermarket in Lower Bavaria should not have expected this freight.
An exotic spider found its way into a supermarket in Schönberg, the store manager found the animal in a banana box and caught it.
Now it must be checked whether the spider may be poisonous.
Bavaria: Supermarket manager discovers exotic spider in a banana box - and catches it with a glass
As the dpa explains, citing the Deggendorf police inspection on Saturday, the head of the supermarket locked the animal in a glass with air holes.
The man then gave the animal to the police.
According to an initial assessment by experts, the captured animal is a Brazilian web spider, also known as a banana spider.
In the meantime, the spider has been brought to a terrarium in the Tiergarten in Straubing.
According to the police, it is still unclear whether the spider is poisonous or non-toxic to humans.
An exact determination cannot be expected before Monday.
A similar incident happened just a few months ago in Osnabrück.
A supermarket employee was even bitten by a spider.
The search for the animal was called off after three hours.
