Auckland War Memorial Museum’s entomology curator, Dr. Leilani Walker, says she is backing the pūngāwerewere, the trapdoor spider. She says New Zealand punches above its weight in the bug world, with ...

IN April there were media reports about “saving” Gua Kanthan in Perak. Several parts of a limestone hill near Gua Kanthan are used as a quarry and now there are concerns that the area within ...

Scientists have found a fossilised giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, only the fourth specimen of its kind to be found ...

However, even the funnel-web's more closely related mygalomorph cousins, such as wishbone, metallic tube and trapdoor spiders are not (to use the Australian Spider Identification Page's own ...

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

Encouraging spider habitats through the planting of native plants and maintaining a balance between prey and predator will enhance garden health and productivity. Trapdoor Spider. Photo by Friends of ...

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

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 a shock after an eight-legged stowaway was found on a shipment of olives from Cordoba, ...

The Spanish funnel-web spider was spotted at a nursery in West Sussex after a shipment of olives from Cordoba was unloaded.

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 ...