Found in a bunch of bananas.

[Beemer]

My boss to-day bought a bunch of bananas from a well know supermarket and got a bit more than he paid for. The bananas were from the South American country, Belize so if any one know of any Belizean beetles please let me know. This one is 'armless ;D Regards Beemer.

[mb]

Now this rings a bell ( to quote good ole Quasi).We lived in deepest Speke in a corpy terrace.The fella next door worked on the banana boats.You could always tell when he came home from a voyage.There was a regular dull thumpng from next doors bathroom( Jeez,yes a bathroom). Apparently, we found out later, he used to bring home hands of bananas,chuck them in the bath.out would pop the various spiders and the family would proceed to bash them as they tired to climb up the wall.

He was a chef.He was nabbed by the scuffers crawling through a hole in a fence /wall in Birkenhead docks clutching a dirty big ham under his arm.When he apppeared,charged with theft He denied all about it until the offendeing meaty -bits were produced in evidence.Classic stuff.

[ian531]

Hi Brian

Nice find, I think?

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Ian

[coaxingtin]

That looks like a cockchafer which is fairly common in the UK. I found one in my Flintshire garden last year and identified it via a photo I took.

[Deleted]

Well it could have been worse; it's usually tarantulas you find in bananas. I remember reading of a case many years ago when I was in Jamaica of a Rastafarian guy who went to sleep in a banana field. Unkown to him, a tarantula got into his hair, and when he discovered it, his attempts to get it out were met with resistance by the tarantula who took its revenge on the guy by stinging him, as a result of which he subsequently died.