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Joro spiders from East Asia are weaving their way into the U.S. landscape. Understand their habits, habitats, and how they affect local ecosystems. Creepy, crawly and invasive.
How quickly venomous flying spiders are invading the U.S. From 2014 to 2022, Joro spiders spread between 50 and 80 miles from the location where they were originally spotted.
Trichonephila clavata, also known as the Joro-spider (ジョロウグモ, Jorō-gumo), is a spider in the Trichonephila genus. Native to East Asia, it is found throughout China, Japan (except Hokkaidō), Korea, and Taiwan, and has been spreading across North America since the 2010s. It rarely bites humans, and its venom is not deadly.
Male Joro spiders are relatively small, with legs spanning less than an inch. The females, however, can be quite large, with one-inch-long bodies and legs that stretch up to four inches.
Jorō spiders can get stressed out, but while their heart rates accelerate similarly to other spiders, they do not panic and run away. Instead, the arachnids "simply stay in place," Davis said ...
The babies can: using a tactic called “ballooning," young Joro spiders can use their webs to harness the winds and electromagnetic currents of the Earth to travel relatively long distances.
As orb weaving spiders, they tend to weave their webs in circular patterns in between things such as trees or manmade structures. Their webs can get anywhere from only a few feet to 12 feet across.
Joro spiders typically eat a variety of insects, such as flies, mosquitoes, beetles, moths and other small flying insects that get caught in their webs. They can also indulge in a butterfly if ...