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 ...

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

A West Sussex nursery owner was in for a surprise when a large venomous spider with a “huge appetite” arrived with his ...

Sydneysiders can expect are surge in funnel-web spiders this autumn. Picture: Supplied Australian Reptile Park seeking funnel web spider donations. Picture: Supplied Spider keeper Emma Teni said ...

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 quite the fright after the spider was found on a shipment of olives from Cordoba.

The Australian Reptile Park in Sydney says this has been a “very slow” funnel-web season so far but a spike in the numbers of the highly venomous spiders is expected in the coming months.