THIS is the disgusting moment a massive spider crawls out of a family’s Aldi bananas.
Christopher Kirk picked up the fair trade produce at a supermarket on Carnation Way, Ashbourne, in the Peak District during the Easter holiday.
The creature hitchhiked on a bunch of bananas from Aldi[/caption]
The family theorise it was a Huntsman Spider but an expert disagreed[/caption]
When they got to the hotel, Christopher was alerted to the huge arachnid by his screaming two-year-old daughter.
She shouted “spider” while her four-year-old sister also recoiled in terror.
A stunned Christopher took the, thankfully unopened, bananas straight back to Aldi.
He asked the store for a replacement which was accepted.
The dad-of-two also uploaded images of the eight legged crawler onto an insect-identifier app.
It generated results indicating it was a Huntsman Spider, which is a venomous species found in Asia.
Christopher told The Sun: “The holiday wasn’t really disrupted – we just wanted our kids to be able to eat something healthy.
“At the end of the day, I considered it a living creature and I didn’t want to harm it myself.
“However, we are now very wary of picking up bananas in a shop and inspect bags of them closely.
“We are also especially wary of loose bananas as it could well have been the bag that contained them that stopped us having a situation where one of us, including our young children, had been bitten.”
Thankfully no family members were bitten, albeit very shaken up.
An Aldi spokesperson referred to Paul Hillyard, a leading authority on arachnids and Science Associate of the Natural History Museum in London.
He said: “The families known for attaching their egg sac to a banana are harmless to humans.
“These small spiders sometimes build their nest on a banana because the fruit provides a safe and shady location close to the tiny fruit flies upon which the spiders feed (the spiders have no interest in the banana itself).
“The nesting practices used by these small, harmless spiders are very different to those used by the sort of tropical spiders that might justifiably cause alarm (e.g. the large, agile, huntsman-type spiders and Brazilian Wandering spiders) – most of these carry their egg sac in their jaws or bury it in the leaf litter, rather than attach it to a substrate such as a banana.”
This comes as other shoppers from supermarkets across the UK have made horrifying discoveries.
One customer was left disgusted after discovering some-fin fishy crawling in his Sainsbury’s cod – a two- inch parasitic worm.
He was looking forward to the fish for his Friday night supper, but lost his appetite after noticing the creepy-crawly.
Elsewhere, a couple who ordered a McDonald’s to help with their hangovers were left feeling even more sick after discovering a giant bug inside one of the burgers.
Cathy Suzuki, 25, ordered the new Homestyle Crispy Chicken and a triple cheeseburger through the UberEats app as she and boyfriend Craig How recovered from the night before.
The pair decided to split the £18.80 meal, and cut the chicken burger in half so it could be easily shared.
However, when they did, a whopping insect dropped out from between the buns.
Meanwhile, another mum found a snail in her McDonald’s chicken wrap.
And, this is the horrifying moment a family discovered a ‘snake-like’ creature slithering out of a Sainsbury’s potato bag.
The stomach-churning footage showed a slimy invader hiding inside the superstore packaging.
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The dad-of-two said their discovery disrupted the holiday[/caption]