Season: These spiders are usually seen in the autumn months when males leave their webs in search of females. They frequently enter homes through open windows, chimneys or gaps beneath doors. A large ...

A giant spider ... large as 10cm - the diameter of a grapefruit. READ MORE: Deter spiders from the home this mating season by ...

The dark, glossy and large spiders are considered among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. The current antivenom is already effective against a wide variety of funnel-web spider ...

The cat, cited by some as an anti-spider measure a household can employ ... In addition to house spiders, which are large with a brown cephalothorax (the fused head and thorax) and a tan-coloured ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right. Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different ...