Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of people in Britain needing hospital treatment after spider bites has more than doubled over the past decade, raising ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hospital admissions from spider bites have doubled in England in the last decade, with experts blaming the rise on the “explosion” ...

Expert comment provided by Prof Adam Hart, professor of conservation ecology at the University of Gloucestershire. In the UK, hospitalisations from false widow spiders reached 100 in 2025. That’s ...

Noble false widow spiders - or steatoda nobilis - are on the rise in the UK, and prefer living in or near houses The effects of spider bites are putting more people in hospital in England than 10 ...

The belief that Britain's spiders can't cause serious harm is one of the top 10 bug bite myths still circulating in the UK, according to new research by Asda Pharmacy.

Broadcaster and journalist Anna Whitehouse, better known as Mother Pukka, was hospitalised earlier this year after a false ...

After Britain endured one of its hottest spells of the year, with two consecutive days in May breaking temperature records, the sudden cool-down is now driving a wave of false widow spider sightings ...

A woman who was hospitalised after being bitten by a UK spider has urged people not to make the mistake of thinking native ...

The effects of spider bites are putting more people in hospital in England than 10 years ago, according to a freedom of information request by the Press Association. NHS figures show that there were ...