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Researchers from Clemson University determined in a 2023 study that the species is hastily expanding outside South Carolina, and data suggests the arachnids may be found in most of the eastern U.S ...
How quickly venomous flying spiders are invading the U.S. From 2014 to 2022, Joro spiders spread between 50 and 80 miles from the location where they were originally spotted. At around 10 miles ...
A Joro spider is its web in Georgia. (AP/Alex Sanz) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) It was the summer of the cicada — but now, Joro spiders may be swooping in to claim their spot in the headlines.
They spin webs as thick as 10 feet wide and offer several benefits of sticking (or spinning) around.
Female Joro spiders are brightly-colored and its adult body can be more than an inch-long with a four-inch leg span. Male Joro spiders are brown, and grow to about a quarter of an inch.
Trichonephila clavata, also known as the Joro-spider (ジョロウグモ, Jorō-gumo), is a spider in the Trichonephila genus. Native to East Asia, it is found throughout China, Japan (except Hokkaidō), Korea, and Taiwan, and has been spreading across North America since the 2010s. It rarely bites humans, and its venom is not deadly.
A 2023 Anthropoda study found that when air is blown on a joro, it will freeze for over an hour before going back to what it is doing. Native spiders that faced the same trial resumed activities ...
The Joro spider is originally found in east Asia and is thought to have arrived in the United States in 2010. Their first official U.S. spotting was in Georgia in 2014.