It's been a trying time in Australia as of late, with fires tearing through the country, followed by flooding. But now experts are warning of another threat: the funnel-web spider. According to ...

One of Australia’s most deadly arachnids whose bite can kill in minutes could soon be saving lives rather than taking them.

The Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, has been implicated in most human fatalities caused by funnel-web species, and despite the development of a life-saving antivenom in the early 1980s, it ...

Spider venoms contain ingredients that could lead to a new treatment to protect honeybees from the deadly Varroa destructor ...

Sydneysiders have been warned about a surge of the world’s most venomous spider as the wet season approaches — but are urged ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian zookeeper on Tuesday urged people to catch and donate deadly funnel-web spiders, to help replenish stocks of antidote running low after a spate of spider bites. The ...