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Europe’s “Biggest Venomous Spider” Just Arrived in the UK, and It’s Not Going Anywhere
A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to ...
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Which UK spider are you?
Springwatch is back! This year as well as the usual fluffy foxes and cute garden birds they're going to be teaching us more about some of the UK's spiders. Whether you think they're creepy or cute ...
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Europe’s BIGGEST spider arrives in Britain with venomous, hissing funnel-web monster spotted in yard
"Taxonomically, they are in the infraorder mygalomorphae which includes the trapdoor spiders and tarantulas. "We only have one native mygalomorphae in the UK and they are much, much smaller and ...
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What are spider webs made of? And how do they spin them?
UK spiders tend to produce silk that is white or has a bluish hue. There are seven different silk glands, which produce silk with different characteristics and uses. For example cribellate silk is ...