Sex Spider killed in Dutch supermarket
Between the bananas in the jumbo hypermarket in Bolsward a toxic spider has been recently found. The deadly poison causes infernal pains and paralysis phenomena with people. With men it can cause uncomfortable erections that can last for many hours and that can lead to impotence.
The spider was found by a hypermarket employee and has nobody was bitten, thus chef Johan Dijkstra of the vegetable department Thursday.
The very toxic Brazilian wandering spider (phoneutria nigriventer) sat between the bananas from Costa Rica.
An employee of the vegetable department placed the spider in a glass, and was put for show on the counter. Afterwards the phoneutria nigriventer was taken by veterinary Bolsward.
The spider has been drowned by a doctor and thrown in the wast basket. “we must think of our own health, according to an employee of the vet”.
The Brazilian wandering spiders appear in the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 for the most venomous animal.
Brazilian and US scientists are looking into using spider venom as a possible natural Viagra.
Category: Health
Quite interesting…
Quite interesting, to have a species found in a shipment from a location where this species isn´t even occurring.
Even more interesting, to have a “vet” around who´s said to be able to track down a species identification in Phoneutria. By which means was this conducted, taxonomically or “other”?
If that person is in fact that knowledgeable and experienced to be able to identify a Ctenid spider down to species level, the very same person should also be aware of the fact that it´s just extremely unlikely that the encountered species was indeed P. nigriventer, but most likely in fact the much less toxic and in costa Rica commonly encountered P. boliviensis.
Lastly, the picture you portray here is NOT P. nigriventer, but P. reidyi, which, just to mention, isn´t distributed in Costa Rica either.
Regards,
Stefan
Did you get an automated translation program to produce this English text? I had a good laugh seeing how many mistakes there are. For example: “between the bananas.” Were there 2 bananas only? Also you might have your text checked on spelling mistakes or improper use of tenses. All of this is not so important of course, but I do feel sorry for the employee who was put for show on the counter.