Almost all of us will have seen spiders in our homes - perhaps walking across the lounge floor, stuck in the bath, or quietly sitting in a ceiling corner. Several species share our living spaces, some ...

But why does the phenomenon occur and how can anyone who is afraid of creepy-crawlies tackle an arachnid accumulation? Prof Adam Hart, an entomologist at the University of Gloucestershire ...

But what may be a petrifying period for us is actually a blast for the arachnids as they're out looking for love. "The ones we see scuttling around in the house - they're usually the male house ...

This includes insects, crustaceans, millipedes and centipedes, even arachnids. Being an invertebrate means they don’t have backbones like us. Instead, some have soft and slimy bodies ...