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

The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...

Due to the slow season, the park needs more male funnel-web spiders whose venom is essential for antivenom production. Spider keeper Emma Teni said the zoo needs the public’s help “now more ...

The Australian Reptile Park is the sole supplier of funnel-web spider venom for the production of lifesaving antivenom and needs the spiders for the program. 'Every spider received could be the ...

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 ...

As Europe’s biggest ever spider arrives in the UK in a batch of olives from Cordoba in southern Spain, we take a look at the ...

Professor Glenn King with a live female funnel web spider in this lab at the University of Queensland. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian Discovered in 2016, the molecule in the venom of ...

However, since the inception of the Australian Reptile Park’s funnel-web spider antivenom program in 1981, zero deaths have been recorded. The venom program houses more than 2000 spiders ...

Spider milkers use a suction pipette to collect the toxin dripping from donated funnel-web fangs, freeze-dry the venom and send it to CSL Seqirus labs in Melbourne. Staff there rehydrate the venom ...