For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

You won't have missed the headlines: they come around as regularly as Christmas at the garden centre, and at about the same time of year. The Newcastle Chronicle says "Brits urged to keep windows shut ...