Spiders come in all shapes and sizes, but these giant species stand out for their massive leg spans and impressive weight.

Arachnophobes will want to do all they can to make their home as unwelcoming to the crawly creatures as possible - and this ...

A nursery owner in West Sussex got quite the fright after the spider was found on a shipment of olives from Cordoba.

As Europe’s biggest ever spider arrives in the UK in a batch of olives from Cordoba in southern Spain, we take a look at the UK’s largest spiders and the story of a man who ended up in hospital after ...

One of my students at Sheffield Hallam University sent me this stunning picture of a very large, and in the UK, very rare ...

A shopper got an unexpected freebie with her bananas when she discovered an egg sac thought to be from a venomous South ...

It "has for some time been considered to be Europe's largest spider", according to a 1989 description of the species from the British Arachnological Society. The description added: "It has also ...

Cutting off what matters most to a spider will make it think twice about setting up a home of its own in your garden ...