You’ve heard of spiders catching insects, maybe even small reptiles, but have you ever imagined a spider eating a shrew? Well, prepare yourself for this wild tale that you won’t be able to unsee. A ...

Every autumn there are reports of false widow spiders becoming uninvited eight-legged houseguests in homes across the UK. But despite looking similar to the more dangerous black widows, all these ...

There are seven broad types of spider webs, and each is created in a unique way. In this article, we find out about their ...

Similar types of spider webs are created outside by Theridiidae spiders which include Steatoda nobilis, otherwise called the Noble False Widow Spider. Their tangled web is often in the shape of a ...

“Very few spiders in Britain can bite you and the only possible one is the false widow - it’s pretty big and you’d wake up if that was in your throat,” Dr Wilkinson says. “It’s not ...

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We have all heard the rumour, right? That over a lifetime, humans swallow around 20 spiders in our sleep. Now, given that the average life expectancy in the UK is over the age of 80, that’s not too ...

The venomous noble false widow is hospitalising record numbers of people as the spider spreads across Britain. The noble false widow is one of only 10 spider species in the country that has fangs ...

The brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus) is a lesser-known relative of the infamous black widow. The first brown widow spider was discovered in Los Angeles in early 2000. A member of the ...