The venomous noble false widow spider (Steatoda nobilis) has officially established itself in New Zealand, with confirmed ...

If you’ve ever caught a glimpse of a chunky spider darting across the carpet, you’ve probably had that moment of […] ...

Discover more about "Britain's most venomous" spider - the noble false widow, from where you'll find it in the UK to how dangerous it is.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A woman ended up in the hospital after being exposed to black widow venom in an unusual way ...

Symptoms from a black widow spider bite include nausea, sweating, restlessness, fever, and tremors. Some people report being able to feel the bite, while others report not feeling it.

There have been zero confirmed deaths from black widow bites in the U.S. since 1983. That said, a bite can cause muscle cramps, pain, sweating, and occasionally nausea—unpleasant, but rarely ...

South Australia’s tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have tried a bold fix—move it. Three separate populations were shifted from the ...

Black widow spiders are found primarily in the southern and western areas of the U.S., the CDC says. They tend to live around manmade structures, Gangloff-Kaufmann explains, like a shed, in the ...

Tributes have been paid to a father of two small children who was killed in a crash. Cyclist Tom Manston died in an accident ...

The brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) is one of the only common spiders in the U.S. that is considered venomous — though their bite rarely, if ever, kills a person.

The state is also home to two very poisonous spiders. Known as one of the most venomous spiders in North America, the infamous black widow spider is usually found in dark secluded spaces like ...