Trapdoor spiders look intimidating, but they are not considered dangerous to humans. While their bites can cause mild pain and swelling, they are not venomous enough to pose a serious threat.

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

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 ...

However bites are not common (about 30 to 40 people ... such as wishbone, metallic tube and trapdoor spiders are not (to use the Australian Spider Identification Page's own terminology) "medically ...

Taxonomically, they are in the infraorder mygalomorphae which includes the trapdoor spiders and ... significant and the last thing a spider wants to do is bite a human hundreds of times its ...

Taxonomically, they are in the infraorder mygalomorphae which includes the trapdoor spiders and ... significant and the last thing a spider wants to do is bite a human hundreds of times its ...

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