Deadly spider found lurking in loo?
An arachnophobic mum has found what she thinks could be a poisonous spider hiding in her bathroom.
Mandy Adams, who lives in Carpenter Drive, St Leonards, got the shock of her life when her 20-year-old son Jamie Aubrey called her to get a spider out from under the family's toilet.
However, unlike the usual tiddlers and daddy-long-legs the 37-year-old is used to catching, the mum-of-three came face to face with an unusual arachnid – one which she believes could be a Brown Recluse.
Miss Adams told the Observer: "I don't like spiders but my son is even worse, so I went to look for it when he said he had seen one in the toilet.
"I got quite a shock – it was nothing like any spider I had ever seen."
She managed to capture the spider and set about identifying it by trawling the web for a match. The one which most resembled the spider in their jam jar was the Brown Recluse – normally found in the US.
While the Brown Recluse, as its name suggests, is not an aggressive spider, its bite has been known to cause organ failure, painful ulcers or even death.
This is the second strange bug to turn up in 1066 Country recently. Earlier this month Margaret Stannard was watering her Acer plant and spotted an ugly looking Asian Long-horned beetle.
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