Spinning their sticky webs in shadowy corners to capture mosquitoes, flies, wasps and cockroaches, the American house spider ... look like: Big, brown and hairy, the wolf spider resembles a ...

Season: These spiders are ... domestica to the quite large Tegenaria parietina, which can reach a leg span of 120mm (5 inches) in the adult male. Their sheet-like webs are usually built in garages, ...

I'm genuinely intrigued and admire them, but I'm afraid to say I'm still a bit scared of really large house spiders! And I'm not that fond of false widows either. My favourite species is ...