A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to the UK, arriving in a West Sussex nursery hidden inside an olive tree ...

Large numbers of spiders are entering Oxfordshire homes as ... This follows the news last year that tarantulas were confirmed in the UK by BBC researcher Adele in the form of Britain’s only ...

"He rang me and said there's something big just walked across ... which includes the trapdoor spiders and tarantulas. "We only have one native mygalomorphae in the UK and they are much, much ...

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of ...

He rang me and said there's something big just walked across the yard and ... look at them in a more positive light. None of our UK spiders are medically significant and the last thing a spider ...

He rang me and said there’s something big just walked across the yard and ... in a more positive light,’ he said. ‘None of our UK spiders are medically significant and the last thing a ...

Just take a look at the Spanish funnel-web spider, which was discovered at a nursery in West Sussex, UK strutting out from a shipment of olives from Cordoba. While we don’t know how big this ...

They are big too, females being larger than males attaining up to 2cm in body length, whilst males at about 0.5cm are much smaller and easily overlooked. They are not dangerous to humans.

Large numbers of spiders are entering homes as Europe’s largest spider was found at a nursery. The Spanish funnel-web spider, which is thought to be Europe’s largest, was spotted at a plant nursery in ...