Removing spiders from the home is problematic. Animal advocate Nathan Winograd has told me that one’s instinct to remove a spider from your home is problematic as many species of spider in any country make your home their home. They are house spiders. It depends …
A lot of people are scared of spiders. They’d rather vacuum them up and forget about them. Easy-peasy solution. But they might think about the spider inside the bag inside the hoover. Are they dead or dying? Can they survive the violent journey? If they …
The title looks a bit odd because most people consider a common house spider in the UK as being benign. Some people think that they are quite cute and certainly not dangerous. However, a story in the newspaper yesterday indicates that very rarely a UK …
They don’t know whether the current deluge in Sydney, Australia is a result of global warming, but they do know that a 20-minute downpour last Thursday pushed Sydney’s rainfall beyond that recorded in any year since records began according to Bernard Lagan writing for The …
Here are two animal-related moments during this wonderful Monday when the world said goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II at her funeral. The organisers did an amazing job. Quite outstanding. It went like clockwork and was very moving as one would expect. It was truly a …
I have never seen this before. It’s an interesting reminder that insects as well as people make a positive effort to go to higher ground to escape flooding. In this instance it almost seems that the spiders are on a par with humans in the …
