A shopper got an unexpected freebie with her bananas when she discovered an egg sac thought to be from a venomous South ...

As Europe’s biggest ever spider arrives in the UK in a batch of olives from Cordoba in southern Spain, we take a look at the UK’s largest spiders and the story of a man who ended up in hospital after ...

Taxonomically, they are in the infraorder mygalomorphae which includes the trapdoor spiders and tarantulas. "We only have one native mygalomorphae in the UK and they are much, much smaller and ...

The rare arachnid, which had travelled all the ... this will look at them in a more positive light. "None of our UK spiders are medically significant and the last thing a spider wants to do ...

Conservation experts say the Prime Minister’s comments that rare arachnids have stopped the building of 15,000 homes in Kent ...

Taxonomically, they are in the infraorder mygalomorphae which includes the trapdoor spiders and tarantulas. We only have one native mygalomorphae in the UK and they are much, much smaller and ...

A rare species of spider known as the "distinguished jumping ... It is one of just two sites in the UK which are home to the distinguished jumping spider. The tiny creatures are just millimetres ...

‘None of our UK spiders are medically significant and the last thing a spider wants to do is bite a human hundreds of times its own size. We’re simply not on the menu and spiders don’t go ...

Although extremely rare, spider bites could lead to dangerous outcomes in the UK and, with more than 650 different species of spiders, it’s important to know which ones can cause problems.