The Joro spider is the newest invasive species of spider in the eastern part of the U.S., with experts anticipating they will continue to spread throughout the region, National Geographic reported.
Hudson enjoys the beauty of the spiders, but has to push back on the swelling population at his home by stepping on them, raking up their webs and spraying aerosol product on them.“I know. They are gorgeous spiders,” he told UGA with a chuckle. “But there are just too damn many of them.”
But amid the thick webs and unrelenting tide of Joro spiders in Georgia, there may be a silver lining, UGA entomologist Nancy Hinkle said.Hinkle said that the new local could offer good pest control against different bugs that interfere with people’s lives and the environment. One of the bugs that UGA hopes the Joro spiders can help limit is stink bugs, which are detrimental to crops.
If the creatures are giving residents a headache, the swaths of webs and spiders inside them will fall away in November as the population dies. Before the female spiders die in the fall, they will leave behind a sac of eggs, Hinkle said. The eggs will drift in the air with silk parachutes, spreading across the eastern part of the U.S.
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