In the UK, the list of spiders that could potentially cause health issues include the false widow, the tube web, woodlouse spider, cardinal spider, the walnut orb-weaver Spider, wasp spider ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

The spiders have a silver-grey coloured abdomen with a brown oak leaf pattern on the back. The legs are dark brown with light brown bands. The markings are somewhat variable. Its webs seem at first ...

Dr Michel Dugon, assistant professor in zoology at the University of Galway, told The Telegraph: “Bites are rarely witnessed by the victim, and there is no typical ‘spider bite syndrome ...