Dani Zenith, a teaching assistant at the school in Croydon, said staff screamed when the huntsman spider leapt out of ... 3,000 miles to the school from its home in the Ivory Coast.

Their ubiquitous popularity as home pets is a clear sign that even ... it allegedly entered the US via banana shipments), the ...

She explains that pygmy possums are “quite common” in the area and that the spider “probably just saw an opportunity and went for it.” “It was one of the biggest huntsman spiders he’d ...

Video / NZ Herald, Getty A second sighting of a Huntsman spider in Napier’s Pandora area could be the last - unless the species can survive a Hawke’s Bay winter. Cor Vink, arachnid expert and ...