The 43-year-old's hand, arm, leg and even foot ballooned as the venom took hold and he was rushed to hospital.

Horrifying photos show how his hand, arm, leg and even foot ballooned up as the venom ran rampant through his body.

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 ...

‘None of our UK spiders are medically significant and the last thing a spider wants to do is bite a human hundreds of times its own size. We’re simply not on the menu and spiders don’t go ...

Abdomen shape: Females have globular, shiny abdomens. Male abdomens are smaller and less ... Read our identification guides to the most common spiders found in UK homes.

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 ...

UK audiences have watched on in envy ... of Peter Parker to your local ‘plex: And here’s a shiny new poster spanning multiple Spider-eras: While the return of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man ...

A web isn't a foolproof way of identifying the spider that made it, but its shape will usually allow you to establish which family it comes from, and it's often possible to be even more specific. Here ...

Spiders' webs don't just catch bugs and flies. They also catch water. Sticky webs can catch water droplets. If you look really closely, they look like strings of pearls or shiny beads. But some ...

Mr Smith, from Maidstone, Kent, said: "I was quite shocked a spider in the UK could cause this sort of ... Females have globular, shiny abdomens. Male abdomens are smaller and less rounded ...