Everyone split! A supermarket in Austria shuttered this week after a venomous Brazilian wandering spider was spotted wandering in the bananas, TMZ reported, citing fears that a bite from the ...

A U.K. woman says she found a Brazilian wandering spider in her groceries. — -- A British woman got a little more than she paid for when she found the world's most venomous spider hitching a ...

According to a 2007 report by Live Science, a Brazilian wandering spider's venom stimulates a painful, hours-long erection. The venom boosts nitric oxide, a chemical that increases blood flow.

Still, there is a type of Brazilian wandering spider, called Phoneutria fera, that is widely considered to be the most dangerous spider on Earth. The species lives in the middle of the Amazon ...

Brazilian Wandering spider was voted as the 2007 most vulnerable animal by Guinness World Records. Not located in the U.S., this species of banana spider gives a painful bite but is rarely fatal.

Bromeliad spiders. Like the Brazilian wandering spider, bromeliad spiders mainly live in Central and South America. They’ve also been found in the Caribbean in Haiti and Jamaica.

The Guinness Book of World Records considers the Brazilian wandering spider the most venomous spider in the world, with only 0.006 mg of its venom needed to kill a mouse.