Residents who find funnel-web spiders are asked to collect them and donate them to Australian Reptile Park so they can be ...

Measuring over a foot long and weighing more than a banana, these are the biggest spiders in the world. Interestingly, while ...

Guinness World Records in 2010 listed the Brazilian wandering spider as the most venomous in the world. Sometimes known as the "banana spider", they often hide in banana plants and are found ...

A terrified London family has had to move home after venomous Brazilian Wandering Spiders began hatching in their house – out of a bunch of Sainsbury’s bananas. Consi Taylor, 29, mum to Benjamin, ...

If you're not a big fan of spiders, brace yourself, because the Brazilian wandering spider we're about to go into a lot of detail about one of the most dangerous spiders on the planet. With a venom ...

a giant crab spider appeared in a box filled with bananas. The animal was still crawling around, but the man managed to catch the poisonous giant spider and raise the alarm. The emergency services ...

When a human gets bit by the venomous Brazilian banana spider (Phoneutria nigriventer), their initial symptoms — rash, sweating, nausea — may sound normal for a spider bite. But what may ...