Stock Photo - Gemma Price from Stanley County Durham had a narrow escape from Brazilian wandering spiders from bunch of Costa Rican bananas purchased from ASDA in Stanley last Monday (24Apr17) Tuesday night Gemma had been to the Machine Mixed Martial Arts Gym on Tuesday 30/04/2017 where she is in training for a fight Gemma came ingot changed into her pjamas and picked a banana from the bunch gone back upstairs to her bedroom where her baby son was sleeping, not realising the banana contains a spider sack of Brazilian wandering spiders. As she opened the banana the sack opened and roughly couple of hundred. spiders escaped from the banana the spiders covered Gemma's arm she threw the banana up n the air, it down onto the bed spiders went everywhere covered her arm clothes bed and her son Leon was covered him and his cot She rang 999 police stated to evacuate the property went to her Mams her luckily lives across the road She contacted Asda Stanley they stated brig the bunch of bananas back for a refund, she then rang head office speak to Elliot from Leeds he stated to shake her clothes, he stated if he could jump in a car and help her he would Asda stated they would keep in contact with Gemma and nobody has been back touch. Asda stated to take the bananas back and get a refund with the spiders They said somebody would be back I touch and nobody did she contact fresh produce manager in Asda Head Office and they stated they were Costa Rican Bananas Gemma rang head office after she contacted environment health they contacted pest control they could not help as they were a foriegn species. Gemma asked who should she ring environmental health, she did not know who to ring Gemma stated should she ring spider specialist the her reply was good idea. Was not really sure what to do the. Asda contacted the specialist in Birmingham to get in contact and deal. Something needs to be in place in the area for this sort of thing happens again will be contacting Durham county council to discuss this further Gemma cannot express enough gratitude for the police and the way they have helped in this situation thank you The aftermath after the specialists have been and gone they have sprayed all around d the property pest co tell have not stated what pest co tell they have used Gemma have had to throw a lot of babies clothes in the bin. And wash everything Asda asked Gemma to go and shake her and her sons clothes then Stated bring the bananas back for a refund she eventual was given a £50 voucher for clothes for he son she ended up buying new clothes bottles milk and a new steriliser Enviromental Health managed to get JG Pest Control in to deal with the spiders even they were unsure of what they were dealing with Was only in 2009 Gemma was bitten by a false widow spider in consett County Durham where Gemma was a chef she was rushed to hospital she was given adrenaline and specialists were called in but for this to happen twice is unlucky the image mainley deal with the after affects of the clean up Featuring: Atmosphere Where: Stanley Co Durham, United Kingdom When: 01 May 2017 Credit: WENN.com