A newly discovered species of fungus takes control of cave-dwelling spiders in Ireland and Northern Ireland, similar to the ...

With the death of a student last year after a spider bite, it is good to know what action you should take if you are bitten.

Ireland is the only place where a unique fungus has been found that infects reclusive spiders in dark caves and turns them ...

So-called "zombie spiders" have been discovered in a cave between Co Cavan and Co Fermanagh. They were found by speleologist ...

Generally, spiders want to avoid humans and are much more scared of us than vice versa, meaning they will only bite as a ...

It's the stuff of nightmares - or even the hit TV show and video game The Last of Us: a novel fungus that turns its hosts ...

The newly discovered fungal species responsible for their zombification has been named Gibellula attenboroughii, in honour of ...

Nicola Toki from Forest & Bird educates us on the intertidal spider, found around the world in the genus Desis, including one ...

ZOMBIE spiders’ have been found at an Irish beauty spot – and experts reckon there could be more around the country. The rare ...

THIS is the terrifying moment hundreds of spiders appear to “rain down” from the sky. Hundreds of eight-legged crawlers ...

Those living in São Thomé das Letras in Brazil got to see a "rain of spiders", when the Parawixia bistriata creates an ...