There are more than 2,000 wolf spider species, with body sizes ranging from less than one millimeter to 30 millimeters (.04 to 1.2 inches). Wolf spiders provide natural control of harmful insects.

The spider also laid eggs in his toe. He's now on antibiotics and set to make a full recovery While on a cruise Colin Blake, 35, noticed his toe turning purple.

A species of wolf spider. These arachnids probably don’t lay eggs in people’s toes, experts say—probably. Image: Katarina Christenson (Shutterstock) Just in case you needed a new fear to ...

After visiting the ship's doctor to get it checked out, he was informed that he'd been bitten by a Peruvian wolf spider, which had laid eggs in his toe. Advertisement ...

The spider venom is not necrotising, it is designed to paralyse a fruit fly." "There is no European wolf spider that could really penetrate the skin," Goodacre said.

When the doctor cut open the toe, a milky pus with black dots came out. The doctor told Blake the black dots were the spider’s eggs, and said, “but don’t worry, I’ve got them all out.” ...

Brianna Smith posted a now-viral TikTok of the moment her fiancée tried to kill a giant spider — and it exploded with babies. ... female wolf spiders lay around 100 eggs after mating.

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the largest type of funnel-web spider found in Australia. Confusion over ...

(CNN) – Here is a mystery that is sure to give you the heebie-jeebies – did a spider lay eggs in a man’s big toe? Colin Blake, a man from England, said it happened to him. Blake and his wife ...