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Invasive species of giant, parachuting spiders spreading across East Coast, experts say
Fox Baltimore ^ | March 4, 2022 | ZACHARY ROGERS

Posted on 03/05/2022 7:03:49 AM PST by Henry Cavendish

ATLANTA (TND) — An invasive species of spider has made its way to Georgia, and will likely spread out to more states along the East Coast, according to experts with the University of Georgia (UGA).

The 3-inch long "Joro Spider" is native to Korea, China, Taiwan, and Japan, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The spider thrives in Japan, which has a similar climate to the southeastern United States...

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TOPICS: Gardening; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: arachnids; china; davidbowie; gardenspiders; georgia; giantspiders; japan; joro; jorospider; korea; spiders; taiwan; ziggystardust
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To: rlmorel

That’d be me.

I dig snakes, moths, mice....but spiders and centipedes...NOPE NOPE NOPE.


81 posted on 03/05/2022 2:05:18 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: griffin

Ha.

You’re an arachnophobe.

In Florida we got spiders as big as your hand. Some are venomous, some just bite the sh!t out of you.

8^)

5.56mm


82 posted on 03/05/2022 2:09:10 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: HandyDandy

That too!


83 posted on 03/05/2022 2:13:31 PM PST by ryderann
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To: rlmorel

ROTF!
Same. Once in a while the tiny little spider drops from the visor and I poop. Ugh.

The only spiders I dig are those little whitish ones that hang around outside and have an attitude. They are quick and very combative...they are fun to piss off. They never jump on me but are always fainting a charge at my paint scraper ot wire brush. Fierce defenders.


84 posted on 03/05/2022 2:17:44 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: M Kehoe

guilty as charged.


85 posted on 03/05/2022 2:27:38 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: Salamander

Thanks for the pictures.

A few years ago, I was asleep and my cat was asleep next to me. We were awakened by a huge orange spider marching up the wall behind us. Really noisy. By the time I got out of bed to find something to swat it with, it had disappeared. Never saw it again.

I looked up spiders common to the Pacific Northwest, but nothing like that lives here. How crazy is that?


86 posted on 03/05/2022 2:44:03 PM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness offends me)
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To: Libloather

We have one of those. Lots of fun! However, your window sills get a bit salty...and bloody if you hit a fly close enough.


87 posted on 03/05/2022 2:47:25 PM PST by Mama Shawna
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To: Veto!

Could have just been a color variant of some other spider or a hitchhiker on some shipment of fruit from somewhere.


88 posted on 03/05/2022 3:57:52 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: griffin

I like spooders.

:)


89 posted on 03/05/2022 4:02:59 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: rlmorel

:’(


90 posted on 03/05/2022 4:03:30 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Henry Cavendish

Stupid author header says they’re spearheading across East coast.....his article says “Likely” will spread

They always make the story before it is one.


91 posted on 03/05/2022 4:05:20 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: Blueflag

That is interesting because its legs look just like those of Florida’s native Banana spider/Golden orb weaver spider, which produces incredibly strong gold silk. Harmless, but I get a graceful of their web at times when mowing. The cool thing is they have the sense to rebuild their webs higher up if it gets destroyed that way.


92 posted on 03/05/2022 4:12:25 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: rlmorel

#1 great writing. I don’t hate spiders but have been bit a time or two. Kinda like to see them fight with the wasps. Sometimes the Wasp wins sometimes the Spider wins. Wait did I just plagiarize JAWS.


93 posted on 03/05/2022 4:20:56 PM PST by nomorelurker
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To: Henry Cavendish

When you have hundreds of thousands of containers coming in from china, you’re gonna get insects and pests of all kinds hitchhiking along, either by accident or design


94 posted on 03/05/2022 4:57:54 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: GreenHornet
 
 
Floating spiders from the sky,
 
Make you run, scream and cry...
 
 
Apologies to Sgt. Barry Sadler.
 
 

95 posted on 03/05/2022 5:19:25 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Bob434
 
 
Guess this is a lame replacement for the murder hornet thing.
 
 

96 posted on 03/05/2022 5:25:24 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: nomorelurker
Hahahaha...you kinda did!

Heck. I don't hate spiders.

I just hate it when the things crawl on me or things around me in my domicile!

97 posted on 03/05/2022 6:20:41 PM PST by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: rlmorel

Emotional damage...


98 posted on 03/05/2022 6:30:57 PM PST by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: JohnnyP

In my case it is to a degree. Never been able to shake it...


99 posted on 03/05/2022 8:33:54 PM PST by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: csvset

I was visiting cousins in Arkansas and while going out their back door noticed a huge…..I mean huge…..green spider on the other side of the window in the garage. I was standing there looking at it, since there was glass between us, when my cousins wife came out and said….that’s a harmless garden spider. I said…..I kill spiders….and walked off. 😁. That darn spider was there the whole week I was there.


100 posted on 03/06/2022 7:10:23 AM PST by sheana
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