Spiders will sometimes be found in bananas from South America and Africa, although the likelihood of that happening is pretty low. … That’s why they hide in bananas, where they can stay reasonably hidden from the outside world.

Do spiders go into bananas?

There is simply no chance for spider eggs to get into a banana. Nor would a species that did this survive long, since spiderlings in an uneaten banana could never escape. Not that eating spider eggs would cause any harm even if this fantasy were true! This myth has already spawned variations.

Do spiders hide in fruit?

Probably not, says a new study that shows most hitchhiking arachnids are harmless. The arachnids, which hide among bunches of bananas and other fruit shipped from South America to the United States and the United Kingdom, can frighten the daylights out of unsuspecting humans. …