Every year spiders invade homes across the country as the weather cools - but what is the reason for more spiders coming into your home each "spider season"?

Why are there so many spiders in your home at the moment? 

Longleat Safari Park is working alongside Bristol Zoo on a conservation programme to save the Desertas Wolf Spiders. 

Rare species of spider being saved from extinction

Devon Wildlife Trust says the strawberry spider was found at Meeth Quarry nature reserve.

Rare spider that looks like fruit spotted in Devon

Thousands of baby spiders have hatched at Bristol Zoo as part of a world first breeding programme to save the critically endangered species.

Rare spider bred at Bristol Zoo for the first time

A woman from East Devon who was bitten by a false widow spider says the pain was so intense she thought it was a snake-bite.

False widow spider-bite victim 'thought it was a snake'

A man from Bath was hospitalised for three nights after a suspected spider bite.

Graphic content: man hospitalised after 'spider bite'

Homes are set for an invasion of venomous false widow spiders, experts have warned, thanks to perfect conditions for a population boom.

Homes 'could see invasion of false widow spiders'

Our Environment Correspondent Duncan Sleightholme writes about his day chasing spiders in Dorset

West Country Spiders

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