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 ...

A rare species of spider known as the "distinguished jumping spider" was found ... It is one of just two sites in the UK ...

A shopper was left stunned when she discovered a clutch of spider eggs in her bananas ... They said: "While it is extremely rare for naturally-occurring foreign bodies like this to be found ...

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 ...

Britain has become a “watchdog state” where rare “jumping spiders” have held back the development of a 15,000-home new town, ...

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

‘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.

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 ...