One of my students at Sheffield Hallam University sent me this stunning picture of a very large, and in the UK, very rare ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Although many UK spiders are harmless to humans, a build-up of webs in your back garden over time can be unsightly and make your space look unkempt. But, the eight-legged bugs aren't just looking ...

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 ...

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 ...