A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to the UK, arriving in a West Sussex nursery hidden inside an olive tree ...

UK spiders tend to produce silk that is white or has a bluish hue. There are seven different silk glands, which produce silk with different characteristics and uses. For example cribellate silk is ...

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 ...

‘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 ...