Anyone seen a spider like this before?

[BLIP]

I think it is funny how the biggest, meanest, manly-man will shriek like a little girl when they run into a spider web or a spider …..
I have done it too though !!

 

[jp1]

Last year we had about a dozen joro spiders. This year, probably 500 or more.

 

[Sowega86]

Wondered what kind it is. They're huge things, several inches across. And they make really big, strong, and irregular webs that spread out all over the place between bushes & the house just out in the open.

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I believe that's the Asian Joro spider that's now an invasive critter in Georgia.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/asian-spider-takes-hold-georgia-sends-humans-scurrying-80855714

 

[BLIP]

I believe that's the Asian Joro spider that's now an invasive critter in Georgia.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/asian-spider-takes-hold-georgia-sends-humans-scurrying-80855714

the East Asian ones I have seen in my yard have a more elongated torso (male) the female East Asian Joro are quite a bit fatter...
They do not bite however I believe they are invasive...
The wife freaks out at spiders or any insect, but the Joro has a special place in making her do the "flailing, spasmotic, air swimming" dance....

 

[BLIP]

Here is a little more info...
Armadillos, Giant Spiders... When does the Locust invasion start back up?

 

[jp1]

Just give your kid and airsoft gun and let them go to town.

 

[Sowega86]

If they start taking hummingbirds, then the spider extermination game begins. Remember that similar spider in Australia that ate a large bird in its web?

 

[Beulah Land]

Wondered what kind it is. They're huge things, several inches across. And they make really big, strong, and irregular webs that spread out all over the place between bushes & the house just out in the open.

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That’s easy, that’s one of those burn it with fire spiders, a close relative to any other spider I see.

 

[Gingerbeard Man]

Caught on my surveillance cam...doubt it's a Joro. Still pretty neat.

 

[Deleted member 79987]

If they start taking hummingbirds, then the spider extermination game begins. Remember that similar spider in Australia that ate a large bird in its web?

That must be one venomous spider to be able to kill a bird.