A DAD has been left arthritic after his limbs nearly “exploded” from what he believes was a bite from a false widow spider.

Scientists have discovered how an Australian jumping spider's semi-hydraulics allows it to speed jump long distances with ...

I was quite shocked a spider in the UK could cause ... but the poison went down my arm, down the back of my shoulders and went down into my left leg. My leg ballooned. 'The poison travelled ...

With the small body and spindly "legs," people naturally started calling them "spiders," and the name stuck. Once carriages were succeeded by automobiles, the term stuck around to refer to ...

Brian Smith suffered a severe reaction to a false widow bite that has led him to warn others about British spiders ...