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    SPIDERS: SHOULD I BE WORRIED ABOUT BEING BITTEN BY A FALSE WIDOW?

    Jun 30, 2021 3 minutes
    by PROF ADAM HART

    You could be forgiven for thinking that the UK is in the grip of a spider emergency. With “spider numbers surging” and “dangerous bite warnings” being issued in the media, people are being “terrorised” and even hospitalised.

    These headlines have been building for a few years, and the species behind the media arachnid obsession is the noble false widow spider, Steatada nabilis.

    A relative newcomer to the UK, the species is from the Canary Islands and Madeira.

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