Giant spiders are invading Britain's homes - if media reports are anything to go by. Spider identification expert Stuart Hine explains why we see more spiders in autumn, and what you should do if you ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the UK, the list of spiders that could potentially ... had lodged several complaints regarding a sudden invasion of spiders in their dorms but an inquest heard a previous inspection found ...

In 2022, The Telegraph noted that “deaths related to spider bites are virtually unprecedented in the UK”, yet a YouGov ... spider-phobes dreading the seasonal invasion of arachnids might ...

A web isn't a foolproof way of identifying the spider that made it, but its shape will usually allow you to establish which family it comes from, and it's often possible to be even more specific. Here ...