Gradually, week by week, spring is coming, and wildlife species emerge. In local woods there are great tits, wood pigeons, and mistle thrushes singing, and more insistent with the passing days.

On rare occasions, hobo, huntsman, jumping, or nursery web spiders may be faulted for appropriating the flairs of wolf ...

It lives in a web. Spiders like to eat bugs ... This clip could be used to follow a literacy lesson on nursery rhymes. ‘Little Miss Muffet’ and ‘Incy Wincy Spider’ might initiate ...

The Spanish funnel-web spider, revealed to be a female by its new owner, was spotted in a nursery yard in West Sussex by a forklift driver. The anonymous nursery owner said: "My son, who was ...

Large numbers of spiders are entering Oxfordshire homes as Europe’s largest spider was found at a nursery. The Spanish funnel-web spider, which is thought to be Europe’s largest, was spotted ...

The BBC experts, explaining how the spider gets its name, added: "When their young are about to hatch, they weave nursery webs around their egg sacs for protection." BBC Countryfile explains ...

One of Europe’s largest spiders was spotted in a delivery of olives from Spain this week, startling a nursery owner. The Spanish funnel-web spider is a venomous species with a ‘huge appetite ...

A nursery owner was in for a surprise when a large venomous spider with a “huge appetite” arrived with his delivery of olives. The Spanish funnel-web spider, which is thought to be Europe’s ...

Large numbers of spiders are entering homes as Europe’s largest spider was found at a nursery. The Spanish funnel-web spider, which is thought to be Europe’s largest, was spotted at a plant nursery in ...