Subscribers: Will a parachuting spider that's overtaking Georgia come to Arizona? We asked experts
"Jorō spiders are members of the orb-web spiders and construct really impressively large orb webs in trees and shrubs off the ground," Dawn Gouge, a public health entomologist at the University of Arizona, told The Arizona Republic in an email."I can imagine the residents who found them might have been quite astonished at the sight."
"It is likely that spiders or egg sacs arrived on or in cargo containers, plant stock, crates of produce in cargo containers, but we really don’t know specifics," Gouge said. “Just by looking at that, it looks like the jorōs could probably survive throughout most of the Eastern Seaboard here, which is pretty sobering,” How big is a jorō spider?
This is called ballooning, according to UGA Today, and it has allowed the spiders to spread across Georgia. They have alsoMany people casually refer to this as"parachuting." In Arizona, you can see this phenomenon of"a speck of a spider floating on a silk string in the air" in the springtime, Jon Douglas, a biology professor at Phoenix College, told The Republic. Juvenile spiders are tiny, so you can’t typically tell their species by sight.
He noted that the golden silk orb-weaver "has made it pretty far west," to the middle of Texas. The spider's range is affected by weather; it can travel as far north as Canada, but the season's population dies off when the temperatures freeze.
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