Posted on 06/04/2024 12:28:37 PM PDT by Vesuvian
Yes, they are venomous, but their bite is not strong enough to penetrate human skin.
I met 2 gals in Hoquiam,WA who was hired to search for those things. They had a drawer full of bodies. Amazing, they looked like a real life anime character. I wish that I would have tried to buy one, I was gobsmacked looking at them. I also figured that we’d see more…
Now Ziggy played guitar
Jamming good with Weird and Gilly
And The Spiders from Mars
He played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the special man
Then we were Ziggy’s Band
Ziggy really sang
Screwed-up eyes and screwed-down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan
He could lick ‘em by smiling
He could leave ‘em to hang
He came on so loaded, man,
Well-hung, snow-white tan
So where were the spiders
While the fly tried to break our balls?
Just the beer light to guide us
So we bitched about his fans
And should we crush his sweet hands?
Oh yeah
Ziggy played for time
Jiving us that we were Voodoo
The kids was just crass
He was the naz
With God-given ass
He took it all too far
But boy, could he play guitar
Making love with his ego
Ziggy sucked up into his mind (ah)
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed a man
I had to break up the band
Ziggy played guitar
If I was still living in NY state, I would be leaving. Don’t care if they’re not dangerous to humans or animals. Anything that huge has to be ugly and that’s enough for me.
That’s like people saying tarantulas aren’t dangerous. They DON’T HAVE TO BE!!!
I was grateful I didn’t live there with the Gypsy Moth infestations in NY and PA years ago. They drove my mother crazy finding them on clothes out on the clothesline etc. I picked up that phobia from her - ANYTHING crawling!!!
I grew up with “apple tree worms” - had one drop onto my lap playing at an outdoor school band concert in the ‘50’s..probably dropped a few notes! At the dinner table one evening, my mom reached across behind me, touched the back of my neck, went out the kitchen door, returned and sat back down and I didn’t even have to ASK what she did. She was totally silent as was everyone else at the dinner table. I knew and thought as much as she hated crawly things, she was pretty brave. I don’t think I could have done it.
Now I live where I could run into venomous snakes anytime - GREAT! I carry what my neighbor calls a “snake stick”...she says - “make noise - lots of noise.”
Last year we put up with the Joro spiders...Couldn’t walk outside without a stick to clear out the webs before walking into them. We all did everything we knew to get rid of them.
I smell Fauci behind all this. Grant money to study spiders. 🕷️
I just read the whole article...they’re talking about the Joro spiders. Hope they bypass GA this year. I had lots of workers around the property last year and they didn’t go anywhere before they took a stick with them from the pile I keep by the garage. They build HUMUNGOUS WEBS...they can build a web from the roof of the house to a tree or from a tree across the driveway to another tree..Watch out walking to the mailbox.
Had the HVAC guy here a month ago for the summer inspection of AC and he grabbed a stick. I asked him if he’d seen them already and he said, “No, but I’m going to be prepared just in case.”
Can they fly on a silk thread as tiny hatchlings only? Many spiders do.
At 4 inches, that would be scary.
I wonder how many of our new pests were deliberately introduced.
So just more Hysterical BullShiite fearmongering from an incompetent and ignorant 'journalist' trying to get the ignorant running around screaming 'we're all gonna die'. By the way what ever happened to that deadly 'Murder Wasp' invasion?
“Looks like a common Banana Spider.
We have millions of them in Florida.
Totally harmless.................”
Harmless? Accidently back into one their webs, let the spider with an 8 inch leg spread get on your back where you can’t reach and tell me how harmless they are while you’re jumping up and down and screaming like a little girl. Of course, that never happened to me....
A few years ago they were all over (lower Alabama). I haven’t seen one in a couple of years. I wonder if we had a cold spell that killed them off.
Ziggy sent ‘em lolol.
I have a solution. Hire my wife to deal with them. She will exterminate them in no time.
The article said “Joro Spiders”. I guess this means the Japanese / Asian Orb Weaver. They are huge and beautiful spiders that I catch and play with every summer through fall. They are not dangerous; they just look scary. They make great pets and are happy to hang out with you and walk all over you without causing any harm or even biting. The kids and parents react differently when they see me catching them by hand.
“First came the spotted lanternflies, then the cicadas — and now, the spiders? “
They forgot all about murder hornets. Sad.
Oh yeah, their webs are amazing. The largest I measured was over thirty feet from top to bottom and more than six feet from side to side. I LOVE the beautiful green, yellow, orange and black Jorogumo spider and their beautiful golden webs.
Yup, that’s a picture of our local beauties.
All spiders are venomous; some more, some less.
This species sounds “Biblical.”
Ok, who has been praying for a judgement plague?
I believe that measurement of their webs...I look out my windows and see them and they are gigantic...I couldn’t even tell you what color they are...their webs are golden? Couldn’t prove it by me. I steer clear of them...
I see from your FR profile you are in Japan. Those spiders supposedly came from Japan. WHY? Who knows? I cannot look at them long enough to enjoy their colors - I want nothing to do with them. Be gone!!!!!!
I understand that Australia has the most awful looking creatures in the world. I’ve heard it but will not look at pictures of what they have there - spiders, snakes etc.
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