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 ...

This follows the news last year that tarantulas were confirmed in the UK by BBC researcher Adele in the form of Britain’s only species, the purseweb spider. The purseweb is a stay-at-home spider ...

How do you treat a spider bite and what are the symptoms to look out for? - With a rising number of people going to hospital ...

‘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 ...

The UK has 650 different species of spiders ... However the good news is that spider bites are rare and not usually a cause for concern. Jack Casson, 38, is a spider enthusiast from Hartlepool ...

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 ...

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 ...

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