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Spiders

July 2024

  • Marbled Orb Weaver by Matt Howard spider

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Marbled Orb Weaver by Matt Howard

    A spider’s hard web-building work is destroyed by the poet’s scythe

June 2024

  • The electric caterpillar, Comana monomorpha

    Bugs, drugs and electric venom: is this the most deadly library in the world?

  • A large spider with blue and yellow stripes rests on a web

    Giant, invasive joro spiders to spread on US east coast – but pose no huge threat

May 2024

  • Museum director from US detained in smuggling operation in Istanbul<br>ISTANBUL, TURKIYE - MAY 13: A view of various scorpion, tarantula and spider species, endemic to Turkiye, in plastic bottles and clip-on bags, found in a smuggling operation organized at Istanbul Airport in Istanbul, Turkiye on May 13, 2024. Lorenzo Prendini, Director of the American National Museum of Natural History, was detained in the operation, allegedly trying to smuggle endemic species of poisonous animals living in Anatolia abroad. (Photo by Bunyamin Çelik/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US museum curator held in Turkey over spider and scorpion samples is freed

  • bags of scorpion, tarantula and spider species

    US museum curator accused of trying to smuggle spider and scorpion samples out of Turkey

April 2024

  • The Penryn campus

    Exotic spiders flourishing in Britain as new jumping species found in Cornwall

  • Invertebrate illustrations

    UK invertebrate of the year
    Invertebrate of the year 2024: all hail Earth’s spineless heroes

February 2024

  • A man in a hardhat sitting by tree stumps damming a body of water.

    Floating spiders and insect-eating plants: leaky dams revive Dorset’s bogs

    Porous dams in Purbeck are being used to ‘rewet’ the mires, bringing a richer landscape for flora and fauna

January 2024

  • A fire truck makes its way up a levee on 11 August 2023 in Texas where a wildfire consumed approximately 1,000 acres the day before.

    More than 100 wild animals trapped by border wall killed in Texas wildfire

  • The web of a funnel-web spider

    Biggest male funnel-web spider dubbed ‘Hercules’ found north of Sydney

November 2023

  • A tarantula on the ground, image provided by the US national park service.

    Death Valley tourist swerves to avoid tarantula in road and causes car crash

    A man on a motorcycle was injured when the camper van braked suddenly to go around the roaming arachnid

October 2023

  • Golden orb spider hanging below its web in Sabi Sand Game Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa

    ‘Stronger than steel, stretchier than rubber’: the quest to harness the power of spider silk

    Spiders don’t make good domestic animals, and not many like walking into their webs in the garden, but scientists dream of a future where spider silk may revolutionise medicine

September 2023

  • guardian saturday kids collage

    The Tim Dowling column
    Tim Dowling: my sons have left the house, to be replaced by spiders

    It has not been that long since the last of our sons left the nest – but I am not handling it well
  • A garden spider’s web in Josie George's garden.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Caught in the web of a spinning goddess

    Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: To sit and watch a garden spider at work is surprisingly moving

    • How to be more productive? I am taking lessons from my eight-legged life coach

      Emma Beddington

    • Country diary
      Country diary: A warm front door brings out the zebra spiders

    • Wolf spider discovered on St Helena already endangered

August 2023

  • Giant House Spider (Eratigena atrica), in a Brick Compost Bin in a British Garden. Exeter, UK.<br>2AF94YH Giant House Spider (Eratigena atrica), in a Brick Compost Bin in a British Garden. Exeter, UK.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Spiders are preparing for their autumn invasion

  • Rambo, Lowri Llewellyn's tarantula spider.

    The pet I'll never forget
    The pet I’ll never forget: Rambo the tarantula scared people – but he was basically an eight-legged cat

July 2023

  • A common orb-weaver and spider on a flower.

    Country diary
    Country diary: The orb-weaver spider is still optimistic of a good harvest

    The Marches, Shropshire: We must recognise the genius artist in these animals. But how many insects will this one catch?
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