From orb weavers to nursery spiders and jumping spiders, the state has its fair share of spider species. It also shelters some of the most venomous and largest spiders in North America.

The WSC, based at the Natural History Museum of Bern in the Swiss capital, said the 50,000th spider registered is the Guriurius minuano, which belongs to the Salticidae family of jumping spiders ...

Hutchinson continued: “The jumping spider family is the largest spider family in the world, so narrowing it down beyond that took much longer. A female (Image: Tylan Berry) “However ...