A giant spider species from Africa has been found at a London primary school Staff screamed when the huntsman spider leapt out of the banana box A giant spider species from Africa has been found ...

In the creepy crawly world of spiders, this gargantuan South American arachnid cousin has a set of fangs that would make ...

"It was one of the biggest huntsman spiders he'd ever seen," Justine Latton said of her husband Adam, who witnessed the incident A man staying at a ski lodge in Tasmania, Australia had the scare ...

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A second sighting of a Huntsman spider in Napier’s Pandora area could be the last - unless the species can survive a Hawke’s Bay winter. Cor Vink, arachnid expert and Associat ...

Some funnel-web spiders have also been known to create colonies and hunt in packs. Another species you might not expect to see working together is the Delena cancerides. This type of huntsman ...

Residents have spotted the species twice in the past few months, and an expert weighs in on if we should be worried.

Associate Professor of Entomology at Lincoln University Cor Vink said he had been told of two sightings of the Huntsman spider - nine months apart - in the Pandora suburb of Napier. Huntsman ...

Huntsman spiders are likely establishing themselves in Napier. But they’re not the only crawlies on the move, and more will come as the climate warms. Michaela Gower reports. A few years ago it ...