A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to ...

The Spanish funnel-web spider is a venomous species with a ‘huge appetite’, and surprisingly made an appearance in West ...

The spider has since been taken in by enthusiast Jack Casson from Hartlepool, whose girlfriend named her Bessie.

A nursery owner in West Sussex got a shock after an eight-legged stowaway was found on a shipment of olives from Cordoba, ...

The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...

EUROPE’s biggest species of spider has arrived in Britain, with the venomous funnel-web creature spotted in a nursery yard. The terrifying stowaway, said to have a “huge ...

British Arachnological Society classified the species as Europe's largest back in 1989, but that hasn't fazed Jack Casson, a ...

While spider bites aren't uncommon, of the over 650 different species of spiders in the UK, just 12 are venomous enough to cause humans severe pain, according to AnimalWised. Generally ...

An Australian zoo is urging the public to catch and donate the world’s deadliest spiders to support its lifesaving antivenom ...

Tesco is using black widow spiders to kill insects on grapes as ... which have distinctive red markings on their backs, are potentially deadly to humans and their venom is 15 times more potent ...