A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to ...

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

As Europe’s biggest ever spider arrives in the UK in a batch of olives from Cordoba in southern Spain, we take a look at the ...

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

Europe's largest' Spanish funnel-web spider was found at the West ... I hope that people reading this will look at them in a more positive light. None of our UK spiders are medically significant and ...

“I think it’s the largest spider in Europe ... this will look at them in a more positive light. “None of our UK spiders are medically significant and the last thing a spider wants ...

Large numbers of spiders are entering Oxfordshire homes as Europe’s largest spider was found at ... year that tarantulas were confirmed in the UK by BBC researcher Adele in the form of Britain ...

Europe's largest' Spanish funnel-web spider was found ... this will look at them in a more positive light. None of our UK spiders are medically significant and the last thing a spider wants ...