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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost all of us will have seen spiders in our homes - perhaps walking across the lounge floor, stuck in the bath, or quietly sitting in a ceiling corner. Several species share our living spaces, some ...

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

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 ...

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).

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.