Experts say an “explosion” in the population of false widows is behind the doubling of hospital admissions from spider bites in England in the past decade. One hundred admissions were a result of ...

Spider bite hospital admissions in the UK have doubled in a decade, with the country's most dangerous spider beginning to breed across the UK ...

The number of patients in England being admitted to hospital for spider bites has more than doubled across the last decade amid an 'explosion' in noble false widows. Provisional NHS figures show there ...

Hospital admissions in England for spider bites have doubled over the last decade, rising from 47 in 2015 to 100 in 2025, according to provisional NHS figures. Experts attribute this increase to an ...