{"id":21706,"date":"2025-09-17T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/21706\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:07:13","slug":"giant-hairy-venemous-spiders-set-to-roam-uk-just-like-australia-all-because-of-our-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/21706\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant hairy venemous spiders set to roam UK just like Australia \u2013 all because of our weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think the house spiders we have now are bad, then buckle up, as experts reckon we could soon be coming face-to-face with massive venemous beasts<\/p>\n<p>20:45, 13 Sep 2025Updated 20:45, 13 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_New-spider-species-previously-unknown-to-science-has-been-discovered.jpg\" alt=\"Anasaitis milesae sp. n. Male. Photo released May 2 2024. A new tiny spider species previously unknown to science has been discovered.No record of the species, named Anasaitis milesae (Tremough Jumper), has been found anywhere in the world \u2013 but it is related to other species known in the Caribbean, so experts believe the spiders arrived in the UK on imported plants.Several of the tiny jumping spiders (4mm long), along with 500 other species, were collected during the annual BioBlitz nature survey last year at the University of Exeter\u2019s Penryn Campus, in Cornwall.Spider experts experts believed the species was unlikely to be a Cornish native - so sent them to Dmitri Logunov, Europe\u2019s leading jumping spider expert, at Manchester Museum.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Jumping spiders have now arrived in the UK(Image: Tylan Berry \/ University of Exet \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Giant hairy venomous <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/britains-most-dangerous-sex-starved-35790220 \" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spiders<\/a> could soon <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/venomous-spiders-set-invade-homes-35785227 \" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">roam the UK<\/a> like the outback due to the change in climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Long hot dry periods followed by days of rain are the perfect breeding ground for tropical <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/brits-warned-brace-themselves-previously-35784975 \" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">creepy crawlies<\/a>. And pest experts have said it\u2019s not long until we could also be infested with them as the country continues to warm up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Last year a new exotic jumping spider species which is poisonous to its prey was discovered in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The critters are related to other species known in the Caribbean, so experts believe the spiders arrived in the UK on imported plants.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758107233_424_0_New-spider-species-previously-unknown-to-science-has-been-discovered.jpg\" alt=\"Anasaitis milesae. Photo released May 2 2024. A new tiny spider species previously unknown to science has been discovered.No record of the species, named Anasaitis milesae (Tremough Jumper), has been found anywhere in the world \u2013 but it is related to other species known in the Caribbean, so experts believe the spiders arrived in the UK on imported plants.Several of the tiny jumping spiders (4mm long), along with 500 other species, were collected during the annual BioBlitz nature survey last year at the University of Exeter\u2019s Penryn Campus, in Cornwall.Spider experts experts believed the species was unlikely to be a Cornish native - so sent them to Dmitri Logunov, Europe\u2019s leading jumping spider expert, at Manchester Museum.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Experts think the jumping spider came over from the Caribbean(Image: Finley Hutchinson \/ University  \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sophie Thorogood, technical training manager at Pest-Stop, said: \u201cOn a daily basis, spiders will enter the UK through shipments, but our colder winters typically prevent non-native species from establishing themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cHowever, with changing weather patterns, we may see more non-native insects and spiders becoming established over the next decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">She also said this September could be one of the worst \u201cspider seasons\u201d on record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sophie added: \u201cThis year, we\u2019ve had a very warm summer, which has led to an increase in insect numbers, with butterflies, wasps and flies all being seen more frequently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThis is likely to result in more spiders because of the increased food supply, so we can expect higher numbers moving indoors this autumn in search of warmth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cWhile no official data has been released yet, the signs suggest households may notice more spiders than in previous years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you think the house spiders we have now are bad, then buckle up, as experts reckon we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,20193,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-21706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-spiders","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}