Brits have been warned over an influx of poisonous spiders after a summer of extreme temperatures. The Met Office has released a number of weather warnings this summer amid scorching temperatures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spider On Wooden Slat Most spiders pose very little danger to humans, including the notorious noble false widow (Steatoda nobilis) ...

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Scientists at University of Galway have published the first record of a noble false widow spider feeding on a pygmy shrew, a species of tiny mammal protected in Ireland. The new study, recently ...

A teen's search for his missing cat went horribly wrong when the only hairy critter he found was a false widow spider - that bit him and left him with a rotting hole in his leg. Virva Saniola and her ...

The Noble False Widow is considered "highly competitive against native European spiders sharing the same habitats" thanks to its high venom potency and ability to optimize venom usage, an Irish ...

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