“I thought I bumped my leg because it kind of looked like a bulls-eye, it looked like a bruise.” The pop R&B artist first noticed the bite around Aug. 18 and from there felt progressively worse.

From corpse to claw . When spiders die, their muscles tense up. "So when the spider is alive, it can actively control the valves in each leg too, so that it can have this walking motion.

SPIDERS and daddy-long-legs are a familiar site in our households, often popping up unexpectedly in our bathrooms and kitchens. Crane flies, harvestmen and cellar spiders are all known as daddy-lon… ...

Daddy-long-legs spiders in Australia are a part of the Pholcidae group, commonly called cellar spiders. "There's more than 1800 species of cellar spiders found around the world," Dr Nixon says.