A mother was horrified when she found a nest of spider eggs on a banana she was serving to her baby.
Debbie Campbell, from Milton in Cambridge, spotted a clump of white eggs on the fruit as she was about to feed her 18-month-old son Albie.
Ms Campbell later looked up the white mark and found it was identical to nests laid by the venomous, Brazilian Wandering Spider.
Debbie Campbell, from Milton in Cambridgeshire, spotted a clump of white eggs on the fruit as she was about to feed her 18-month-old son Albie (pictured)
Ms Campbell said: ‘When I Googled it the first thing that came up was Tesco spider eggs and I didn’t even finish reading the story.
‘I screamed, grabbed my partner and said look at the banana and look at the picture and please tell me that’s not it.
Ms Campbell later looked up the white mark on the banana and found it was identical to nests laid by the venomous, Brazilian Wandering Spider
‘I had heard of it before but I never expected to get it in mine.
‘They need to check them more because it’s not as rare as some people are saying.’
The mother spotted the spider nest as she was packing food for Albie for a family day out.
Toddler Albie with his older sister Taylah-Ivy Campbell, eight
The shock discovery saw her frantically place every piece of fruit she had bought from the supermarket in a bag and return them to the store.
Ms Campbell said: ‘I’m petrified of spiders and I couldn’t even think, I just wanted them out.
‘To think that anything could have crawled of of that and get in my house, I would probably just moved.
‘My older son was saying sometimes the mother spider can hide in the nest and that made it even worse.’
A Tesco spokeswoman said: ‘We sell millions of bananas every week and our growers work hard to clean and inspect all our fruit carefully.
‘However, given the freshness of our produce, this sort of thing can happen on very rare occasions.
‘We would like to apologise to Ms Campbell and will be investigating with our supplier.’