The Brazilian wandering spiders (Phoneutria spp.), armed spiders ("aranhas armadeiras", as they are known in Portuguese) or banana spiders (not to be confused with the relatively harmless species of the genus Nephila) are a genus of aggressive and highly venomous spiders found in tropical South and Central America. These spiders are members of the Ctenidae family of wandering spiders.
The Brazilian wandering spiders appear in the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 as the world’s most venomous spiders and are the spiders considered directly responsible for most human deaths due to envenomation from spider bites
I wonder why I wouldn’t want this spider to bite me, MAYBE it’s the deadly poison part.
(part of the Morning Express show)
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