Tarantula found in banana shipment!

[Godzirra]

ok how many people ran to the grocery store after this?

 

[GoTerps]

Looked like a Cyriocosmus sp. to me. :?

Looks like something else to me... something both of us keep.

Eric

 

[Philth]

Looks like something else to me... something both of us keep.

Eric

The one in the video that Syndicate posted? The grape spider ?:?

I do believe that the spider found in the banannas, is a H. triseratus.

Later, Tom

 

[GoTerps]

The one in the video that Syndicate posted? The grape spider ?:?

I do believe that the spider found in the banannas, is a H. triseratus.

Later, Tom

Oops, my bad, got confused what spider you were talking about!

Eric

 

[dragonblade71]

Hey amazing find! Didn't a similar thing happen in the movie 'Deadly Cargo'? Some tarantulas were amongst a shipment of coffee beans from South America and attacked an American town in this fictional film but oddly enough, I think they were Mexican Red Knees!

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

Looked like a Cyriocosmus sp. to me. :?

Im confused I thought the T in the bananas was different than the one in the grapes. anyways both are really cool looking. I like the one in the grapes more thought, looks sorta like an avic.

 

[Philth]

Im confused I thought the T in the bananas was different than the one in the grapes. anyways both are really cool looking. I like the one in the grapes more thought, looks sorta like an avic.

Oh boy, what a mess I'm turning this thread into, haha.

I believe the first spider in this thread, found in the banannas, is a H. triseratus.

Then Syndicate posted a video of one found in the grapes. That spider looks like a Cyriocosmus sp. to me, not an Avicularia sp.

I do think H. triseratus is a different spider than the Cyriocosmus sp. "grapes"

Later, Tom

 

[GoTerps]

O
Then Syndicate posted a video of one found in the grapes. That spider looks like a Cyriocosmus sp. to me

The "grapes" spider looks like a little Paraphysa/Euathlus jobby to me.

Eric

 

[Philth]

The "grapes" spider looks like a little Paraphysa/Euathlus jobby to me.

I could believe that too, It would make sence to since they refer to it as a Chilean sp. Definitly not an Avic.

Later, Tom

 

[UrbanJungles]

Here's another "Banana" spider that came in a shipment into Philly this summer...seems it's a more common occurance...and genus?

 

[tarcan]

OK, that's it, I am going to be a whole semi full of banana boxes tomorrow!

This is getting really crazy!

Martin

 

[bliss]

Here's another "Banana" spider that came in a shipment into Philly this summer...seems it's a more common occurance...and genus?

you're joking right!?! holy crap

tell me you bought this one... cause if you didn't i'm gonna start a business importing bananas! lol

that's a H. triseratus as well!

dan

 

[Arachnobrian]

OK, that's it, I am going to be a whole semi full of banana boxes tomorrow!

This is getting really crazy!

Martin

Sheesh, who would have known a trip to the local fruit market could be a rare find.

I worked for a man who owned a couple of fruit markets in town, when told of my tarantula collection. He mentioned finding large spiders in the bananas happened occasionally. He first tried to give them to pet stores, then to the humane society, with no luck they had to consider it a pest and destoyed them when found.

While working for him I offered to take the pests away if any were found. I never heard back.

 

[UrbanJungles]

you're joking right!?! holy crap

tell me you bought this one... cause if you didn't i'm gonna start a business importing bananas! lol

that's a H. triseratus as well!

dan

Nope, why buy something that was free?


-It is however not in my possession, it belongs to a museum collection now.

 

[Philth]

Wow, realy nice spider UrbanJungles.

I took some pics of a banana wholesaler in Costa Rica in 2006. I cant speek for columbian banana's but I cant imagine where a tarantula would hop on for a ride. After the bananas go through this process they are bagged and boxed and sent to there destination.


Every "clutch" of bananas on every tree was wrapped in plastic to protect from preditors as well.(sorry no pic of that)

 

[c'est ma]

Fascinating pics!

I remember our bus in Costa Rica stopping because bananas were crossing the road...there was a sort of overhead automatic conveyor line and huge bunches of field-cut bananas were hanging from it, on their way to the next step, what ever that would have been. Maybe something like the above.

 

[Hedorah99]

Great, all i ever find are frogs in my produce. I feel so gipped. :8o

 

[bliss]

Danny, when exactly was it that you found that t in your produce?

so if it's from produce, that means it's from the wild... does it eat well? the reason i'm asking all this is because it looks rather fat... and if it's WC then there's the possibility that it could be..

well you know what i'm getting at

--dan--

 

[UrbanJungles]

Dan- you are correct in your assumptions. Let's leave it at that - lol

 

[dtknow]

haha...ok what brand of bananas are these?