Invasive Joro Spiders Flourishing in Georgia

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Arachnophobes, beware! An invasive species of spider has made its home in parts of Georgia. The Joro spider is native to East Asia, but it was first noticed in the U.S. in 2014. Entomologist Dr. Will Hudson from the University of Georgia is personally acquainted with the spiders and says not to worry. If you’re squeamish about creepy, crawly, long-legged things it may comfort you to know that the spiders won’t hurt you. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.

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@XAzulz 2 года назад

“You can kill them, if you want.” Person who has arachnophobia: “TACTICAL NUKE!!!”

@opensourceis9996 2 года назад

Can’t believe people mercilessly kill these creatures. Just because you’re scared of them doesn’t mean you should kill them (prepare for “snowflake twitter kid” comments)

@MrG360oneX 2 года назад

From orbit. Just to be sure

@jgtheking573 2 года назад

@@opensourceis9996 I'd kill a spider

@SUGAR_XYLER 2 года назад

@@jgtheking573 I don't kill them....they're beautiful to me 😊

@jgtheking573 2 года назад

@@SUGAR_XYLER not to me with Arachniphobia

@7415_Gamer 2 года назад

Fun fact: Their bite wouldn't turn anybody into a spiderman.

@lemonzg8404 2 года назад

Awww :(

@kiritoalt2657 2 года назад

Man that radioactive spider That thing only happen in lab not wild🤣

@kiritoalt2657 2 года назад

@lil p IKR 🤣

@phish8877 2 года назад

There goes the weekend plan

@robertbouchard6661 2 года назад

Lol

@imreplyingtothiscomment2378 2 года назад

I see them all the time in my backyard for years

@kelleyconstance1094 2 года назад

You're confused with Orb Weavers, Garden spiders probably.

@opensourceis9996 2 года назад

@Control-Alt-Delete Why kill them?

@animeworld8166 2 года назад

IKR SAME

@ghostfrieza2904 2 года назад

Did you burn down your backyard? Ill do it for you if you want

@imreplyingtothiscomment2378 2 года назад

@@kelleyconstance1094 most likely but they look extremely similar

@trevy38 2 года назад

Well it is a plus to have an invasive species that isn't a threat to the ecosystem.

@kicks880 2 года назад

The proper term is not "invasive" but "introduced" as there is no solid evidence of them being harmful to the environment at the moment. A lot of people have been mis categorizing them, and inside edition has done the same. The finger is to pointed at the video not the comment.

@Phoenixhunter157 2 года назад

@@kicks880 the title and the people refer to them as invasive. That’s probably why the o.p. Used that word. And I agree with you. Invasive is not the proper terminology here. If they’re not harming anything then they’re not invasive.

@kicks880 2 года назад

@@Phoenixhunter157 Yeah that was my bad I meant to point the finger to the video.

@Phoenixhunter157 2 года назад

@@kicks880 yeah, I thought it was weird that they called it invasive too. Misleading for them to say that. Now people will want to just kill them because of misinformation. I see what you’re saying 👍

@Orca19904 2 года назад

@@kicks880 Now the Asian giant hornet mentioned in the video is definitely an example of an invasive species as it poses a threat to the indigenous honeybees as well as to people living in areas where they're present.

@KelleytinaVW 2 года назад

Let’s make a pact with them: they eat the other bugs and they can stay

@bredagner4632 2 года назад

Agreed😁👍🏾 That's why I don't kill them...lol

@Cam-wm6eh 2 года назад

Yep I hate mosquitoes more than I hate spiders.

@tbren5100 2 года назад

How about we hire some Blue Jays to eat them instead.

@matthewelisha8797 3 месяца назад

I have spiders in my house and I never kill them because they could eat any roaches that invade my home.

@mcdragon0123 2 года назад

Looks like a golden orb weaver.

@Jacksonn985 2 года назад

yeah

@TheSyanAlfaWolf 2 года назад

Yeah, same family

@xthee_0nly_1x11 Год назад

@@Jacksonn985yeah

@Kaution2004 3 месяца назад

Who’s here after hearing they’ll be in New York this summer?

@MM_FarmAndExotics 2 года назад

Everything is invasive. The world changes constantly. Not much we can do about it.

@jakeman025 2 года назад

Yeah you’re right covid 19 was very invasive and there was nothing we could do about it. Unless you were china or course.

@metasprite5648 2 года назад

Tru

@realrickharrison3103 2 года назад

Except the murder hornets Asia can keep those

@kicks880 2 года назад

The proper term is not "invasive" but "introduced" as there is no solid evidence of them being harmful to the environment at the moment.

@SuperLio333 2 года назад

@@kicks880 learned something new today thx

@Pyro_Might 2 года назад

They remind me of the yellow spiders in Guam. I remember wasps tried to build a nest next to one. The wasps were gone in a week.

@kindredspirits7646 2 года назад

So I saw one of these the other day under my stairs up to my back porch, huge and terrifying

@opensourceis9996 2 года назад

Hopefully you let it live

@kindredspirits7646 2 года назад

@@opensourceis9996 I did, I don't mess with those things lol

@matthewb2574 2 года назад

Welp this sucks cause I live in Georgia

@opensourceis9996 2 года назад

Why does it suck?

@SamTWP 2 года назад

@@opensourceis9996 cause some people have fears of spiders, and it is not to be taken lightly

@paranoidhumanoid 2 года назад

Most spiders eat pests like mosquitos and gnats and flies so no problem here.

@mysticker11 2 года назад

yea no problem til you get one wound up cought in the web on side youre face when cutting grass...i kill everyone i see with wasp spray!!!!

@p_filippouz 2 года назад

@@mysticker11 I don't kill just the spider men, but the spider women, and the spider children too

@alejandraponce6214 2 года назад

@@p_filippouz @madmax1970 you two disgust me. You do more harm to the environment than these poor creatures do.

@p_filippouz 2 года назад

@@alejandraponce6214 hehe home made flamethrower go brrr

@mysticker11 2 года назад

@@p_filippouz they all look the same to me....~~~~~~!!!!

@fatboyslim6272 2 года назад

Joro Spiders: No Way Home

@patrickiplagat4801 2 года назад

Underrated

@robertoparada7198 2 года назад

Lol noice

@tshaffer9681 2 года назад

I use to see golden orb weavers all the time here in Florida but these past 2 years almost nothing. I love them. They just hang around. During the rain they hang upsidedown on their web so the rain flows over them and down their legs so they don't drown. They do bite but it just leaves an itchy little bump. At least on me it did.

@Bumbumbr-zu5gc 2 года назад

I hate spiders but I live near the city and I never seen a golden orb spider unless it was out in the country side and even then I don’t see them, I actually ended up having one in front of my front door at my house. Though I was scared of it I couldnt help to think how it get around here in the city but after that haven’t seen another one yet

@purpnecio5735 11 месяцев назад

@@Bumbumbr-zu5gc you didn’t give it a chance to populate RIP

@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291 2 года назад

I have saw a few of these. I’m in South Carolina. I just lumped them in as a species of garden spider. I like them bc they build webs around my chicken and livestock pins to catch flies.

@armaggon5920 2 года назад

My ancestors were slaves in South Carolina, so that is where my family originally is from in america

@ghosa.4434 2 года назад

@@armaggon5920 Cool.

@armaggon5920 2 года назад

@@ghosa.4434 I have the high ground advantage.

@leopoldsteave7142 2 года назад

@@armaggon5920 Completely irrelevant to the video topic.

@armaggon5920 2 года назад

@@leopoldsteave7142 That was exactly what I was going for

@sketchious 3 месяца назад

THIS IS IT!!! the spider that traumatized me as a kid! i remember being at daycare, in the sandbox below the backyard play structure, when i looked up and saw this! its been 15 years, maybe. crazy to see it again after all this time!

@LunarLizard 2 года назад

It could be worse, it could be those huntsman spiders from Australia.

@Zipva 3 месяца назад

As bad as I want to know what this looks like, I would yeet my phone across the room and be too scared to look at it again 😭

@28ebdh3udnav 2 года назад

All southerns be like... "Let me get my shotgun"

@IKEMENOsakaman 2 года назад

It was the killer bees. Now the Joro spiders!!! Next will be Titans!!! AoT!!!!!

@mello6600 2 года назад

Haha what?

@awiseperson9490 2 года назад

Cringe

@corkyromano3808 2 года назад

Our "invasion" of these spiders happened 3 or 4 years ago in Savannah, one summer their were hundreds of them, the next year and since you only saw a few. I imagine they came right through our ports.

@reedwander5396 2 года назад

I’ve had so many of these in my backyard recently

@bulbousborb 2 года назад

If they pose no harm to the environment, then invasive is the wrong term. It's an introduced specie.

@itzzy1859 2 года назад

this isn't the logic. these spiders pose no harm to humans. that does not mean they pose no harm to other insects and spiders in the region. if a species is introduced somewhere, and doing so makes competition/predators for native species of insects/animals, the introduced species is invasive.

@IloveSPIDERZ 2 года назад

Exactly! Naturalized, not invasive.

@neworleans1979 2 года назад

Invasive???? Wow…..so harmless! Leave the damn things alone! All the building and tearing down of trees leave animals no where to go. This poor environment and most important the animals!

@LoanShark_totallyreal 2 года назад

Chill out, snowflake

@kicks880 2 года назад

The proper term is not "invasive" but "introduced" as there is no solid evidence of them being harmful to the environment at the moment.

@EggmondChad 2 года назад

They’re harmless, they eat pests like bees and flies, let them in.

@Jacksonn985 2 года назад

they look like banana spider

@alkggkla5643 2 года назад

They're so beautiful! Glad to hear that the experts aren't concerned about damage to our native ecosystem.

@juliabreezyofficial1162 2 года назад

What a beautiful orb weaver 😍

@JohnDoe-kz4gy 2 года назад

Seen this in Florida for years.

@Bumbumbr-zu5gc 2 года назад

You’re probably getting them confused with garden spiders or Banana spiders

@tatmanmyownbossdannydraco 2 года назад

@@Bumbumbr-zu5gc they said since 2014 so could've been longer

@Shadowcat107 2 года назад

I don’t mind spiders but I do mind the Asian Hornets 😰

@avery3357 2 года назад

when you live in georgia and hate spiders….. help me😫😖😣

@opensourceis9996 2 года назад

Please don’t kill them

@kool7d 2 года назад

destroy them all. Let the hate flow through you.

@avery3357 2 года назад

@@kool7d lol i will

@SussyFortniteballs69 2 года назад

Thanks for telling me this. I’m going to Atlanta for the Holidays and I’m very scared of spiders.

@vfinesse1430 2 года назад

So these spiders were found in 2014 but your going to inform us 7 YEARS later??

@puritychalice 2 года назад

Whelp, now we have to set Georgia on fire.

@cheezchris 3 месяца назад

I was a spider gambler when I was a kid, of all the spiders I've seen. This particular one is the most useless and harmless kind. I have many of these around our house back then and people just ignore it doesnt even matter how big their web is. It's just plain useless, I've tried poking it with a stick or making it fight each other but they dont. I love watching them in their web during rainy days.

@NCYuii 3 месяца назад

I’m getting tired of people saying they won’t hurt you but that doesn’t help my fear of spiders I just want them to leave and not head to New Jersey.

@TJ-100 Месяц назад

They been in GA! I used to feed them grasshoppers when I was a kid. I thought it was fascinating watching them web up its meal They were more scared of me actually

@imtherealtammygonna6216 2 года назад

They were in my moms garden on her rose bush. She leaves them because they eat other insects.

@richardsmith5968 2 года назад

They're harmless I know it because in where I live have a lot of them

@spiderrZz 2 года назад

as someone in georgia, this is true.

@noelmallarez5267 2 года назад

The Web is strong and very useful to catch bugs

@KNGexp 2 года назад

It's like stinkbugs, all of them come from East/Southeast Asia.

@mosesnjuguna 2 года назад

Learnt about this spider, surprisingly in the MCCLURE family RU-vid channel

@Altercepez 2 года назад

A harmless to human spider that eat other bug is an ok for me

@DropAnchor1978 2 года назад

These remind me of the Golden Orb Weavers I saw in Florida down in Marathon Key.

@LeonAllanDavis 2 года назад

If you have a problem with crickets keeping you awake, bring a few if these bad girls into your house. You'll sleep like a baby.

@lowelle5321 2 года назад

There's like 50 of them in my front yard.

@alexie832 2 года назад

Joro spider? Hmmm....that sounds familiar 🤔

@mattsmith4589 2 года назад

This is why elite TSA training is Necessary cause that spider got on to someones luggage and it could of been another problem like the Hornets

@goodnhappy41 2 года назад

Most likely came in on shipping containers

@dennisginser9746 2 года назад

I live in South Carolina and I been seeing these spiders since 2014.

@Chuck.Norris420 2 года назад

There not murder hornets. This is absurd. They're Asian hornets. Been around for two decades.

@patricks607 2 года назад

I live in NE ATL and they’re everywhere.

@stargazer4625 2 года назад

I see these spiders all the time

@jacobwatson1406 2 года назад

ME LIVING IN THE GEORGIA 😳🙏

@onomiayuriha9118 2 года назад

No way I read that as "Invasive Jojo Spiders"

@That1towncar 2 года назад

I did too lol

@janetpattison8474 10 месяцев назад

I saw a gigantic yoro spider about 4 yrs ago in Florida - I call it a banana spider. It’s web was about 6 ft wide.

@WinnerWinnnerChickenDinner1 2 года назад

Everyone in the comments saying they saw this spider before is lying. It would not be this one. Maybe a similar looking one.

@Bvetrayed 2 года назад

So which spider do you think their confusing it with?

@jonathancaldwell6342 3 месяца назад

As long as the spider can kill and eat murder hornets, they can stay.

@the23rdapr90 2 года назад

Fun fact: I'm from North East India, when we were younger we live in a rural area, we used to catch a bunch of them, we remove all the legs and head, and then we fried and ate them. We used to love it, but after growing up and thinking back, it felt disgusting. But I think no one ever eats anymore. And I'm surprised that it was only found in the U.S. in 2014.

@frankbreitling6945 2 года назад

everything tastes good if you fry it

@miodeaglerobelia3540 2 года назад

This year is just getting worse

@LuiTheBazui 2 года назад

You sure those aren’t giant golden orb weaver spiders?

@Zyztem300 2 года назад

It does looks like it but orb Weaver has golden cobweb, rather than white

@LuiTheBazui 2 года назад

Yeah they do.

@kicks880 2 года назад

The giant golden orb weaver is Nephila pilipes whereas the joro is Trichonephila clavata which is also a seperate genus, however the joro is a species of giant orb weaver.

@LuiTheBazui 2 года назад

@@kicks880 Ahhh, ok

@dwilburn1928 2 года назад

Saw these in Augusta years ago.

@Bee1228 2 года назад

Them: You can live with them in peace . Me: seeing the spider then having a heart attack

@brodyfunk918 2 года назад

I’ve seen these in North Carolina once and a while

@TheTibetyak 2 года назад

If they promise not to grow wings, I'll play nice.

@imsooshook3871 2 года назад

OH GREAT! Just what we need more of.😬

@Granztolch 2 года назад

That's a poisonous spider.

@SheilaR.08 2 года назад

It's not.

@djdraws4555 2 года назад

Radioactive + joro spider = joro spider man

@djdraws4555 2 года назад

Or joroman

@ejcarrington1314 6 месяцев назад

I hope they come to Pittsburgh and eat the Spotted Lantern Flies we have in abundance

@gothgurlclique 2 года назад

I thought they were banana spiders

@ja6368 2 года назад

Japan has similar climate to Georgia and you have to watch walking through brush cause they end up in your face😱

@deweyosborne928 4 месяца назад

I have seen this spider or something like this in Ward,Ar. And Searcy, Arkansas. Ward ,Ar. back in 2002 that I opened the door and thankfully I had my head up , I almost walked right into it. The other at a different house in Searcy, Ar. In 2014 same thing . I opened the front door and there it was. I unalived both.

@alanw2687 2 года назад

They're welcome here. They eat the other bugs

@KarlSturmgewher 3 месяца назад

Don't smack them around, they won't harm you.

@maddenplaya2097 3 месяца назад

I'll step on it and show you

@xkaxsky.69 2 года назад

There was a spider like this in my garden when I was a kid. We used to feed it fleas off the dog. Idk if it was the same but it was bright green and tiny.

@generaloofoffical 2 года назад

I like these bois so I’m glad I live in Georgia then

@aschmum 2 года назад

Haha, I just learned I’m never going to Georgia. Send a postcard!

@breadfan_85 3 месяца назад

Like hell it doesn't warrant an eradication effort!

@purpnecio5735 11 месяцев назад

I love them and they build there webs up in high places so it really ain’t a bother it’s cool some times when I’m driving I look up at the power lines and see a dope ass web since nothing really bothers them up there other than the wind