All news on the topic: False widow spiders

WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: Matthew from Surrey complained to his mum on Christmas Day of discomfort in his leg - but mum Sarah just thought her son had a graze, not a venomous spider bite

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Michael Wilkinson from High Wycombe said he was left with a 4cm hole in his leg after being bitten by a false widow spider while sitting outside an Asda

After being bitten by a false widow spider, the pain woke Stuart Vesty up in agony in the middle of the night. By the morning his face had started to sag and he feared he was having a stroke

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Kevin Tomlinson set out for a five kilometre run not far from his Doncaster home, but the dad was left with a 'rotting' wound on his thigh that stank like 'gone-off meat'

Jason Missey had been moving wood in his garden at his home in Broadstairs, Kent, when he felt a sting on his finger but just assumed it was a horse fly, not that his flesh would soon be rotting away

The UK's washout summer might be driving the nation's only poisonous spider into our homes - but there are some ways of stopping the eight-legged creatures from moving in, experts claim

A woman was left in agony for several days thanks to what she believed was a spot on her hand before a doctor at a hospital recognised it as a venomous spider bite

Mum-of-one Tracey Carse from Stockport, Greater Manchester, woke to find a bitemark one morning in November and says the wound is still there four months later