SPIDES IN Bananas

摘要

Arachnids in this grocery store staple (and other international cargo) are often misidentified. As such, there is almost always chaos and incorrect information shared when a spider or an egg sac is found.Every so often, a media outlet reports someonefinding a spider or an egg sac in a shipment of bananas (or other international cargo). The article typically screams about potentially death-dealing spiders or _ spiderlings unleashed upon an unsuspecting general public in typical Hollywood 72-point type. The message is almost never one of subtlety or scientific validity. Often people who do not have any arachnological skill other than to surf the Internet (which is full of misinformation) misidentify the harmless spider as being one of a "deadly" species.