Following in the footsteps of the venomous false widow spider comes the Brazilian wandering spider – a bigger, fatter and badder arachnid on all counts.
Most recently a family was forced to flee their south west London home after a egg sack of the spiders concealed in a bag of bananas hatched as mum tucked into a fruit. *Shudder.*
So what do we need to know about them? This is what: