As If Summer Wasn't Bad Enough

Apparently the worst summer in two decades is going to have an upside. We're about to have a bumper crop of…autumn spiders, some poisonous (there are 12 different venomous ones in the UK) and one, the Tegenaria parietina, or cardinal spider, reputed to have bitten Cardinal Wolsey, which can measure up to 6in across, about [...]