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, ...

Just take a look at the Spanish funnel-web spider, which was discovered at a nursery in West Sussex, UK strutting out from a shipment of olives from Cordoba. While we don’t know how big this ...

They feed on any insects found in homes and will also take other spiders, including surprisingly large house spiders (Tegenaria species). This species is not native to the UK, and may have been ...

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 ...