The spider has since been taken in by enthusiast Jack Casson from Hartlepool, whose girlfriend named her Bessie.

The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...

A 1989 description of the species from the British Arachnological Society called it ‘Europe’s largest spider’, and also being ...

Large numbers of spiders are entering Oxfordshire homes as Europe’s largest spider was found at a nursery. The Spanish funnel-web spider, which is thought to be Europe’s largest, was spotted at a ...

British Arachnological Society classified the species as Europe's largest back in 1989, but that hasn't fazed Jack Casson, a ...

As Europe’s biggest ever spider arrives in the UK in a batch of olives from Cordoba in southern Spain, we take a look at the ...

EUROPE’s biggest species of spider has arrived in Britain, with the venomous funnel-web creature spotted in a nursery yard. The terrifying stowaway, said to have a “huge ...

A nursery owner in West Sussex got a shock after an eight-legged stowaway was found on a shipment of olives from Cordoba, ...

A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to ...

He rang me and said there’s something big just walked across the yard and ... in a more positive light,’ he said. ‘None of our UK spiders are medically significant and the last thing a ...