Giant black and yellow spiders the size of a human hand will arrive in northeastern US states this summer New Jersey and New York.
Jorō spiders are an invasive species that originated in Chinasay experts they can fly up to 100 miles by turning their webs into makeshift parasails.
Although they are venomous, scientists say Jorō spiders’ venom is weak and their fangs are not strong enough to damage the skin of people or pets.
The creepy crawlies have a body about four inches long and legs of six to eight inches. The females are brightly colored and They are known to cannibalize their brown-colored male partners.
It is believed that Jorō spiders reached the US about a decade ago with shipping containers delivered to Georgia.
Jorō spiders have a body about four inches long and legs measuring six to eight inches, often taking up most of a human palm.
Although the imposing Jorō spider is likely here to stay, according to most scientists, there have been no documented fatalities from this arachnid. They are poisonous, but their venom is weak. Their teeth also cannot pierce human skin
Since then, the unnervingly large arachnids have been spotted in Georgia in 2021, spinning their great, bulbous golden webs over the gardens of men.
Experts have long predicted the massive spread of Jorō spiders along the East Coast, with a Rutgers University ecologist telling DailyMail.com in 2023 that they should be in New Jersey and New York “possibly even next year.”
“Because their main dispersal methods are ‘ballooning’ with the wind, or hitchhiking on cars,” doctoral student and ecologist José R. Ramírez-Garofalo told DailyMail.com, “they will generally disperse to where the wind is. succeed, or where people are.’
A group of researchers from multiple states predicted that Jorō spiders will eventually find a home throughout the continental US, Canada and even parts of Mexico.
The spider’s ability to survive in all these different areas with vastly different climates was demonstrated last December through an experiment at the University of Georgia.
Experts say the Jorō spider can fly 50 to 100 miles at a time, using its web as a parasail to glide in the wind, and hitch a ride on highways on the east coast.
The map, created by ecologists and entomological researchers in New York, Tennessee, Texas and South Carolina, shows where Jorō spiders are most likely to spread
Scientists there froze more than twenty of the roughly eight-inch-long spiders and found that 75 percent of them were unaffected.
That’s why researchers told DailyMail.com they saw “no barrier” to Jorō spiders’ march north.
“The native range in Asia includes much of western China and the entire Korean Peninsula, so the spiders are clearly well adapted to fairly cold climates,” one researcher explained.
The good news for arachnophobes in the Northeast is that Jorō spiders don’t want to go indoors, but much prefer to stay outside and use man-made structures as a base for forming their webs, according to an October study. peer-reviewed research led by David Coyle.
Coyle, an assistant professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation at Clemson University, suggests that if people don’t want the spiders, they should simply move them with a broom or stick.
Coyle added that while the direct effect of Jorō spiders on other native species, such as golden silk spiders, is unclear, it is clear that they are an invasive species that requires more attention from the scientific community.
“These aren’t just good-natured spiders coming to catch and kill bad things; These drive out native species and capture and kill anything that gets into their web,” Coyle said.
