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Giant crab spider: A specimen irritated employees in a Bavarian supermarket
Photo: Stefan Laws / PantherMedia
Employees at a supermarket in Upper Franconia discovered an exotic spider between bananas on Saturday before the store opened.
Experts gave the all-clear, the police said.
The spider was not - as initially suspected - a type of banana spider, but a giant crab spider.
According to the police, this species of spider does not pose a major threat to humans.
The venom of banana spiders, on the other hand, can be life-threatening to humans.
Firefighters caught the spider in the supermarket in Bindlach (Bayreuth district).
The animal was taken to an expert.
Nobody got hurt.
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