An on-screen text read, "Spiders run at you because they sense danger and think you're there to protect them, but in our minds, we're terrified and squish them."  At the time of this writing, ...

A nursery owner in West Sussex got a shock after an eight-legged stowaway was found on a shipment of olives from Cordoba, ...

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

British Arachnological Society classified the species as Europe's largest back in 1989, but that hasn't fazed Jack Casson, a ...

The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...

Taking to his educational wildlife YouTube channel, Jack can often be seen writhing in pain and rating some of the most gory encounters he's had with nature's most dangerous critters, from bites to ...

The spider has since been taken in by enthusiast Jack Casson from Hartlepool, whose girlfriend named her Bessie.

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 ...