How to treat a spider bite and symptoms to look out for - With the death of a student last year after a spider bite, it is ...

This includes the Agelenidae family which are common in the United States and are often called funnel weaver spiders. As their name suggests, funnel webs are like a tube with a wide mouth.

Only three species of lace web spider live in the UK. They all belong to the genus Amaurobius. This style of web has single lines of silk radiating away from a silken tube. The lines function as trip ...

Thanks to Tufts researchers, there’s now a solution that shoots, solidifies and even picks up objects. Alas, you can’t use it to swing between buildings.

The tube-web spider is said to have a 'sharp, painful' bite. (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto) The tub-web spider can grow up to 2.2cm in body length and is known for its "sharp, painful bite", ...

But web-shooting ... to remotely pick up a small plastic lab tube floating on water, and a stainless-steel scalpel, partially buried in sand. So, Spider-Man capabilities when?

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen.

In the UK, the list of spiders that could potentially cause health issues include the false widow, the tube web, woodlouse spider, cardinal spider, the walnut orb-weaver spider, wasp spider ...