Is this the world’s most venomous spider... found by a school boy

Is this the world’s most venomous spider... found by a schoolboy in LONDON?

A LONDON schoolboy says he’s found the most venomous spider in the world – in Fulham.

Charlie Wade, 12, discovered the spider in a box of locusts he was about to feed to his bearded dragon, Dopey
He was soon scouring the internet for a match and concluded it was a Brazilian wandering spider, a species named the most venomous on Earth by the Guinness Book of World Records.
And when he presented his findings to his parents, his dad Alexander had to admit there was a “remarkable resemblance” between the two arachnids.
Mr Wade, the chairman of governors at Fulham Boys School, said: “Every week Charlie buys several boxes of locusts from a pet shop to feed his giant lizard.
“He noticed that in one of the boxes, all of the insects were dead, so he looked inside and he found a spider.
“He came to me and was excited to have found the spider that, in his mind, had killed his locusts.
“So he went online, did lots of research and came to me with his conclusion that it was this deadly spider.”
Mr Wade, 46, continued: “I’ll be honest, I totally ignored him, but I was glad he was excited and encouraged.
“Then he pointed out one of the features to me, comparing the two spiders, and I had to agree there was some similarity.
“There was enough similarity for me – not to reach a conclusion – but to say don’t play with it.”
The family have since been told by their local pet shop that the locusts they purchased were from the UK, which would seem to rule out Charlie’s conclusion.
Mr Wade continued: “I was fine with that and was thinking do I let the boy dream on or do I tell him the reality? In any case I was totally relaxed.

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