Global Spider News Database (version 2)

A global database on the media representation of human-spider encounters in the global press. The database is fully described in this publication, which should be cited when using it: Mammola, S. et al. 2022. An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites. Scientific Data, doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6 An Excel file (.xslx) and a tab-delimited (.csv) version of the database is provided. Columns are explained in the metadata file. ------ Change-log version 2: We updated the database following the publication of: Nanni V, Moioli I, Scott C, Mammola S (2025). Social media filtering of sensationalistic news on spiders—a global overview. People & Nature, in press. We corrected several typos and added new variables (Deadly, Facebook interactions, Facebook shares). See Meta_Data_V2.pdf for details.