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Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
Females are a dull brownish gray but — like their namesake, the peacock — male sparklemuffins pull out all the stops in the ...
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Europe’s “Biggest Venomous Spider” Just Arrived in the UK, and It’s Not Going Anywhere
A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to ...
Venomous spider with 'huge appetite' spotted in the UK
The Spanish funnel-web spider is a venomous species with a ‘huge appetite’, and surprisingly made an appearance in West ...
Europe's largest spider with venomous bite hitchhikes to UK in delivery of olives
A nursery owner in West Sussex got a shock after an eight-legged stowaway was found on a shipment of olives from Cordoba, ...
Urgent warning to Brits as venomous 'Europe's largest spider' arrives in UK
British Arachnological Society classified the species as Europe's largest back in 1989, but that hasn't fazed Jack Casson, a ...
How to spot venomous 'Europe's largest spider' as Brits issued warning after it arrived in UK
The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...
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Large venomous spider with a 'huge appetite' found at Sussex nursery
A West Sussex nursery owner was in for a surprise when a large venomous spider with a “huge appetite” arrived with his ...
Europe’s BIGGEST spider arrives in Britain with venomous, hissing funnel-web monster spotted in yard
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 ...