Although most spiders are considered harmless, a few including Funnel-Web Spiders and Brazilian Wandering Spiders are ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...

The brown recluse is another one of North ... for building a funnel-shaped web to trap its prey. It, like other funnel-web spiders, produces toxic venom that can be potentially dangerous to ...

Here are some spiders that can be deadly towards humans or can cause certain level of harm from which you should be stay away.

The Australian funnel-web spider is the largest known male of its kind collected by a member of the public foe the Australian Reptile Park A spider named after a mythological hero recently set a ...

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

The nursery web spider (Pisaurina mira ... Also known as garden spiders, funnel weaver spiders (Agelenidae) are brown-bodied arachnids that have darker striations running alongside their legs ...

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

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 appetite", was spotted by ...

A Brit was in for a surprise when 'Europe's largest spider' – a venomous species with a 'huge appetite' – arrived with his delivery of olives. The Spanish funnel-web spider was spotted at a ...

A British man made a skin-crawling discovery when a venemous spider with a 'huge appetite', known as 'Europe's largest', arrived with his delivery of olives. The arachnid, a Spanish funnel-web ...

In contrast, bites from funnel-web spiders are painful, cause life-threatening poisoning and require hospital treatment. Treat any big black spider bite or suspected funnel-web spider bite as a ...