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Re:Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia by echelon on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @04:26PM (#30620194)
Unless there are other giant yellow spiders with black legs and big webs native to Georgia, I'm almost certain I spotted these when jogging by my neighbor's house in North Georgia around 2007. It was terrifying looking, and it stuck with me.

It had to be around that time, because I moved shortly thereafter.

Anecdotal, but when I saw this headline I immediately thought back upon it.

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Re:Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia by munificent on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @04:33PM (#30620290)
Probably just a banana spider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichonephila_clavipes

Here's one from 2006 in Central Florida: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/299200141/in/datepost...

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Re:Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia by Teknoman117 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @06:58PM (#30621595)
I remember seeing a large number of "yellow garden spiders" around Alabama during the 2007 timeframe. I guess they only get up to about an inch long, I remember that my teenage self thought they were much larger...
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Re:Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia by echelon on Thursday March 10, 2022 @12:23AM (#30623491)
That looks spot on!

Thanks for clarifying.

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Re:Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia by 97s on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @05:12PM (#30620665)
There are some other yellow spiders, but nothing really compares to this one. They don't make traditional webs. They make massive ugly janky looking webs from all different directions that span across a lot of different branches. I don't think they came to be until about 3 years ago. The UGA professor says that they believe they came from a freight truck traveling up I85 as they hatched off.
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Re:Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia by pvaldes on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:20PM (#30646744)
The most interesting part is that they made a very strong silk that is golden and can even be collected and knitted. Ecologically is a problem. One more.
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Re:Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia by nik41tkins on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @04:38PM (#30620351)
Not in GA but close enough. My guess is you saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia
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Re:Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia by mkr-hn on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @04:28PM (#30620222)
Those are the local variety. The new ones are much, much bigger.
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