A Queensland woman got an awful fright when she found a mature female redback spider in a head of supermarket broccoli.
Tamahra Moore, 32, was slicing a head of broccoli at her Townsville home on Sunday when she spotted the full-grown female spider, according to news.com.au.
"I was chopping all my vegies up for the week when I saw a flash of black and red, the bloody thing just crawled out," Moore said.
"I would have probably been better off with takeaway, as I quite easily could have been bitten after I pulled the entire thing apart."
Moore carved the stem off and placed the florets into a plastic container and returned it to Coles in North Ward.