Joro spiders: friend or foe? 

I'm in AL and we don't have joro spiders yet, but I've been telling every stinkbug I see "You just wait, there's something coming for you, buddy."

The joro spiders are supposedly heading up to NY. Can’t wait to see them parachuting around, eating other bugs like wasps, and scaring people.

Absolutely a joy to free handle! Incredibly chill and docile species. Found a few in Athens Georgia. One of my favorites!

I live in South Korea and during the summer and into the fall, these guys are EVERYWHERE. I think they especially like to build their webs using 90 degree surfaces.

All over south Mississippi...my greatest fear when outdoors at night, especially when one covers your face

I am in SC and I have them in my yard. They are not aggressive towards anyone, including native spiders, as far as I have observed. They build strong webs for sure. I have tons of native spiders around and none seem to bother each other. Boris seem to eat the same insects, including beneficials, like any other spider in my yard. I haven't observe any different behavior from them so far. They coexist side by side with the natives. They have built a web on my gazebo so they are easy to observe.

These guys fall into one of my two favorite categories of spiders, which are Orb Weavers and Jumping Spiders. I love seeing the Garden Spiders making themselves at home in my garden. I've never seen them kill a Bee, but they do help out with some of the more harmful insects. If these Joros can make it up to Michigan, I would love to share my garden with them.

This was helpful and informative. Thank you for sharing

Been seeing these things all over my neighborhood (Grayson, GA) in the Fall lately, first last fall and now this one too. They’re so beautiful but the webs they make are so HUGE, it’s lowkey intimidating

They are so stunning !!!

Hopefully this is a solution for the lantern fly

Southern Ontario Canada, WE HAVE EM!!!! Its a miracle!!!! It all makes sense, we are growing more food plants for the first time in a century the past couple decades has been a surge in gardening and permiculture so the insects that eat those plants will follow, and now with more sophisticated predator roles who's size is in relation to available food, ours are not the size of your hand YET but our large fruit trees are not big yet I imagine if they are big and attract the Spotted Lantern Fly which i have not seen yet it will get larger. I also expect more types of birds and more dragon flies. We have a jumping spider here already which has gotten bigger off of white flies and aphids from perennial food crops returning every year, the White Tiger spiders are three times their size of the past and not changing. It really makes sense that another jumping spider role come into the garden as the number of bugs eating crops is highly diverse. I imagine lace wings will be high this year to, its always good to see lacewings.

A bit similar to the writing spider whose web stretches across my garden shed window. She's a beauty!

Interesting video, thanks. Definitely reminiscent of garden spiders I'd catch as a kid.

*Joro spiders: friend or foe?* Foe. _roll credits_

Always enjoy Dr. Coyle’s presentations 👏

Great overview.

We used to have lots of garden spiders around our house every year but now it looks like my 3 “yard pets” as I call them are all Joro this year- their webs are so cool to look at, I don’t mind them being around.

I always wanted to try handling one of these.

These spiders are taking over my backyard lol....They got webs all in the trees andmy deck in Stone Mountain Georgia

In Japan, they are everywhere when it's hot. However, they build webs really out of human walking space high up on the streets and by houses. They also love to be everywhere even moreso in the islands of Japan, especially in Okinawa.

I’m in Rome (NW GA) and I’m ok for these things to stay WAAAAYYYY south of me. We have garden spiders, which are cool, but Joro webs freak me out a little!

How are these people letting those horrific things crawl on them. I can’t get rid of the chills now!

I’m in Gwinnett Co., Georgia…huge numbers of them. I first noticed them around 2019, they peaked around 2021, but the population was much lower last year.

I love spiders so I always keep an eye open for them. Haven’t seen the joro here on Long Island, NY, yet. Last year tho I found that we had fewer spiders around than previous years. Hope we get them all back this year. Note: we had an explosion of praying mantis. Maybe they are predators to spiders 🤨

I think they are adorable tbh

In Oregon, we haven't spotted any, but I guess we are due to expect them soon. I don't think they will have any real negative impact on the local environment or local spider species... They consume other invasive that we don't currently have an answer for, so they may in fact be that answer... let's just hope they don't end up being our Cane Toad

Yaaay another friendly spidy for me to hold!!

I recently saw one here in the Mississippi-Yazoo delta a few miles from the Mississippi River.

I for one welcome our new spider overlords.

I don't mind the joro because it eats the stink bugs but I hate the webs they are yellowish in color and very strong.

I just liked your video 😀

I've seen them when my daughter lived in Georgia. They are huge.

Good to know ! First time I’ve heard of this Arachnid ! I would love to photograph one of these spiders as I’m an amateur wildlife photagrapher ! How far North can they live without the Winters affecting them ?

Fun Fact: This spider also shares the same name of the Japanese mythological creature known as the Jorogumo

I hate wasps so good for her! I have seven garden spider nests in my yard and I hope they ALL hatch. Garden spiders are harmless.

I never seen 1of these beautiful spiders in my area we got them creepy daddylong legged 1s that ya brother chased u in the house with as a kid an traumatized you. But this is a cool looking spider. I wouldn't kill it like I do the 1s in my house

My gf told me about these possibly coming to my area. I heard they aren’t harmful to anything so I’m not worried

I just discovered several in my wooded area I also have the garden spiders we call writing spiders because of the zigzag in the web. They don’t seem bothered by each other, but I don’t want the Joro’s. I’m afraid they will catch bees that we need. Their webs are crazy complex 3-D and strong. I’m afraid for my hummingbirds. But if they eat stink bugs I may like them a little more

We've had tons of them the last 3 years in the Lake Lanier area. I kinda wonder what eats them... if anything.

That's what I do in the greenhouse I have spiders which look similar to the Joro but much smaller that spins web nightly across my aisles that I need to walk down 😲. They're typically in the middle or mostly I break their web and I sweep them aside.😁. What is creepy for me if I have web on my legs especially when I'm wearing shorts. But the spider rarely is ever on my being and if it is it's trying to scurry faster than I'm scared

Lots of spiders and webs this year, but haven’t seen many “writing” spiders.

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Travelling in Korea brought me here. They are everywhere, even in urban settings.

I had a Joro spider blocking my creek behind my house. Lol. The web AND spider were huge. A few days after seeing it, other orb weavers......especially the ones with spikey looking backsides.....ended up leaving......and i had a ton of those. The only orb weavers that stayed were the biggest ones. The brownish/gray ones. Not sure what theyre called. So im not sure if the spikey ones left cuz of the Joro or what. I saw only one though. I didnt bother it.

Wish we had spiders like that in Québec although they say the banana spiders are moving up to the southern areas like nearby montreal's. But hey we have somewhat big ones, the coastal spiders are big, the wolf spiders are pretty big too (saw 1-2 inch wide ones, my parents actually seen a banana spider/tarantula sized one in the woods while I was walking in front once hahah), my appartment staircases and hallway are actually "crewed" by long legged cellar spiders (once I was checkin the fricking mail and one that was 4-5 inch wide legspan slowly crawled down from the ceiling next to my face). Appartment complex employees and to an extend even its corpo and affiliates actually say these are common in every building and infest em but that they are also tolerated because they are great pest control and prevent many nasty crap from infesting the place like flying bugs, bedbugs, earwigs (god I had 200 on my balcony last year and several dozen would seep in every week, some even climbed the back of my desk chair to pinch my ass twice, they violated the NAP, so hundreds of earwig had to die and I had to pinpoint entry points to block them from entering). These are some of the most procreative spiders actually, personally I like them and find em amiable although they're brittle and I worry about hurting them for the seldom times they crawl around my place's floor. Ultimately the fact they're outside spiders will make it so they are rarely sucessfull up here and we have winters with day temperatures that dip into the -50f (-45c) which last for weeks with the usual half the year long winters. Most animals native to up here have a really hard time getting outrooted by any invasives due to their northern adaptations making them able to outcompete any newcomer (except fuckin earwigs god I hate them).

Are they being found in houses?

I live close to Clemson University. I've noticed more of these spiders all over my property mainly in the last few years. Used to see tons of Eastern Spotted Orb weavers and Garden Spiders. Now all I see are Joro's

I love spiders , work in a greenhouse. Have been using biologicals for over 10 years .What is interesting to me My spider population diversified! I really don't believe we have to worry about joro being harmful to our native population but you still can't be too sure but I think their benefit

Very cool!

I want to OVERCOME FEAR OF SPIDERS but they soo SCARY LOOKING give me PANIC ATTACK 🤣💯

Um hummingbirds are caught in the joro webs, then die even if joros don't eat the hummingbird.

It's good to know they are harmless to humans, but I am TERRIFIED of spiders. If I ran into this web, or a golden orb spider, I would probably die. My skin crawls just thinking of it. Why am I so scared of spiders??

I would think with their webs being so big. It would push the garden spiders out since their webs aren't so big to catch food. This could be a problem since I love the garden spiders the most. And if they're catching less food that could make their population decline too. I hope our native or Weaver survive this.

How far north have these spiders migrated?

How are wasps beneficial?

I’m here in Japan and they are everywhere.

??? These spiders have been nesting off US98 near Dade City for over 6 years (at least that's when I first saw them there) by the hundreds

Nahhh it killed a wasp and me and the wasps go back a long ways. I’m glad my spider-homie was looking out

I have 3 baby ones in my strawberry patch. They don't bother me and any spider is welcome in my gardens.

So the already dwindling butterfly and moth populations, bees, lightning bugs, lacewings, dragonflies will all be prey. Everybody seems to act like this is not a big deal, but a web that large will certainly catch things.

Big spider fan. Don't kill em, save em for me haha

I wish i wasn't afraid of them 😕

Is it posones

Why aren't birds eating them?

I don't think that these spiders can travel miles away just using their webs to parachute in NY. There has to be some human intervention in the introduction of these species in North America. How will these species affect the ecosystem in the US??

I wish I was not afraid of spiders enough to do this. I hate them.

I think he meant a can of insect killer instead of a broom. Noted.

They can kill all the wasp. What benefits do wasps do?

they make a good monster girl too

Send them over to Oklahoma. We need them here.

Pretty sure they're bigger here in Japan

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2 words. Hell naw

I have arachnophobia and even the tiniest 2-3mm spiders scare the shit out of me and if i ever see this one iam moving countries man😬

So what did I see 30 years ago?

I am not a fan of spiders but, they are pretty

Move it???!!!! 😂 im sorry, but i would be getting bug spray. Aint no way i could get close enough to move it. I hope i dont ever see one to close to my house.

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They are absolutely dangerous . If I see one of these things i will have a heart attack . That seems pretty dangerous

Idk about yall but i have been dreading on when theor going to be in nyc, im terrified of any and every spider, even house spiders. Pretty soon im going to have a pleasent suprise😡😱😨

If they eat lantern flies, roaches, stink bugs, gnats, ticks, and mosquitos, it's all good!

Those kids are handling the spider like nothing but if it was me back then I would've run constantly for 5 minutes from that spot as fas as possible 🥲.

I hope God sends those spiders to the West Coast as well, to keep the Giant Hornet population in check.

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If its invasive , its gotta go !

I would usually call spiders the children of Satan just because of how unsettling i find there appearance even if there not malicious i admit i like them for different reasons but once im that close to a big one i just completely change mentally i may just be spiderphobic i dont even know at this point

Geeze, listening to the news you'd think we're being attacked by highly venomous, flying spiders, that'll land on your head and bite you.

last summer I killed a JORO Spider here in Poteau Oklahoma

Thank you for this scientific fact-driven piece. Some right wingers will no doubt come up with a conspiracy theory about this. 😆

Bro tell me how this is taking over the world right now

Spider>wasps I absolutely cannot stand wasps.

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Why do you call them Banana Spiders? The proper name is Golden Silk Orb Weaver.

😅😂launch the hellfire missiles

HELLLLLLL NOOOOOOOOOOO

Im so sacrd or spitrs

“Writing” spiders

Seems like they -and their huge, in-your-face webs could trap and kill our little hummers and other small birds.

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