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 ...

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 ...

Gradually, week by week, spring is coming, and wildlife species emerge. In local woods there are great tits, wood pigeons, and mistle thrushes singing, and more insistent with the passing days. At ...

‘Spiders are hugely misunderstood creatures and I hope that people reading this will look at them in a more positive light,’ he said. ‘None of our UK spiders are medically significant and ...

The fen raft spider spent centuries in wetlands in the UK but with the Industrial Revolution resulting in many of the species ...

This follows the news last year that tarantulas were confirmed in the UK by BBC researcher Adele in the form of Britain’s only species, the purseweb spider. The purseweb is a stay-at-home spider ...

The site spans an area which includes part of Ebbsfleet Valley – which is where the garden city is being built. The area is one of only two places in the UK that are home to a critically endangered ...