Funnel web spiders are a group of spiders that belong to the Dipluridae family in the order Araneida. They get this name from the shape of the web that they weave. Since there are several varieties of ...

In spring and summer every year, stories about “hordes of spiders” and “flesh-eating venom” fill tabloids and social media. This rhetoric greatly exaggerates the relative risk of Australian spiders, ...

Australian spiders have a fearsome reputation, but our bees typically pose more of a threat. Here are the worst. Spiders tend to incite more fear than favour and even provoke phobias for some. And ...