banana spider

noun

1. a large, brown and yellow nonvenomous crab spider, Heteropoda venatoria, seen on the walls of buildings in the tropics, sometimes transported to other regions in shipments of bananas.

Example Sentences

The Brazilian wandering spider has a tendency to hide in banana bunches or plantations and is occasionally found as a stowaway within shipments of bananas, hence its other name – banana spider.

From The Guardian

The boys also learned about things they may not have wanted to, like how big a banana spider can seem when it accidentally lands on your chest, how yellow an animal’s eyes can look in a midnight-dark forest and how nasty a summer swarm of Georgia mosquitoes can be.

From New York Times

The wandering spider, commonly known as a banana spider, was spotted crawling out of the fruit in Asda Chesser on Tuesday.

From BBC