one of the UK’s largest spiders which hunts its prey on the water’s surface, and which has been helped by introductions to new sites and managing grazing marshes to suit the very rare arachnids.

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 ...

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

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 ...

‘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.

Charities say rare spiders did not block "an entire new town", as the prime minister suggested. It's like something from the hit TV show The Last Of Us - but thankfully only affects spiders (so far).