A DAD has been left arthritic after his limbs nearly “exploded” from what he believes was a bite from a false widow spider.

‘Spiders are hugely misunderstood creatures and I hope that people reading this will look at them in a more positive light,’ he said. ‘None of our UK spiders are medically significant and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A SNEAKY spider that becomes "virtually invisible to predators" has been discovered. The critter is described as a "master architect", and makes an unusual white hole that scientists say is ...

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

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 ...