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Giant spiders invading Georgia? No thank you.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 11/8/21 at 12:36 pm
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Millions of giant spiders have invaded North Georgia, terrifying residents and spinning webs as thick as 10 feet (3 meters) deep.
Porches, power lines, mailboxes and vegetable patches across more than 25 counties in the state have been draped with the dense, wheel-shaped webs of the bright-yellow Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata), an invasive species originating in East Asia.
https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2021/11/08/giant_invasive_spiders_have_taken_over_georgia_802543.html
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Posted on 11/8/21 at 12:37 pm to Slippy
Burn it all down
Posted on 11/8/21 at 12:38 pm to Slippy
I didnazi these German spiders coming.
This post was edited on 11/8/21 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 11/8/21 at 12:41 pm to Slippy
I think the species of spiders here are the German orb weaving spiders. Look mean but their bite is comparable to that of a bee sting.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 12:43 pm to Slippy
Eco terrorism
Just like with those snakehead fish
Just like with those snakehead fish
Posted on 11/8/21 at 12:43 pm to Slippy
That ain't nothing but a banana spider. Million of them in the woods around here.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 12:47 pm to Slippy
quote:NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN
Giant spiders
Posted on 11/8/21 at 12:51 pm to Slippy
Looks a lot like a golden orb-weaver, which are really cool spiders that are completely harmless to anything bigger than a small snake or bird.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 12:57 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
I parked under some trees at the baseball field a couple weeks ago. I was there for 2 - 2.5 hours. Got back to my car and one of these motherfrickers was starting to build a web using my mirror as one of the bases.
Jumped in and slammed the door. The spider chose the mirror instead of the tree. I thought, no problem, it’ll blow off on the ride home. I was driving 50 MPH. And that thing was whipping around in the wind but it never let go. Eventually we got to a stop light and it climbed up and tucked itself under the lip of the mirror.
It is a now a resident in the side of my yard. I pray to god it never builds over my deck and I walk out one night into a face off of giant spiderweb and spider.
One of my co-workers told me one grabbed his mirror and took a 40 mile trip on the interstate.
Jumped in and slammed the door. The spider chose the mirror instead of the tree. I thought, no problem, it’ll blow off on the ride home. I was driving 50 MPH. And that thing was whipping around in the wind but it never let go. Eventually we got to a stop light and it climbed up and tucked itself under the lip of the mirror.
It is a now a resident in the side of my yard. I pray to god it never builds over my deck and I walk out one night into a face off of giant spiderweb and spider.
One of my co-workers told me one grabbed his mirror and took a 40 mile trip on the interstate.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 1:43 pm to Slippy
The big ones are the females. What you don't know is that they are surrounded by 100's of smaller males that come out to mate at night and share in the quarry of whatever was caught in the web. That's why they don't spin 2-d webs, they spin 3d webs. They are thicker and mattier than the similar looking Writing Spider or Banana spider.
Also, they've been here for several years but the population is now getting noticable.
Also, they've been here for several years but the population is now getting noticable.
This post was edited on 11/8/21 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 11/8/21 at 1:53 pm to Slippy
These people must have never set foot in the forests in Louisiana or Mississippi then!
Early in the fall late summer Banana spiders are everywhere.
Early in the fall late summer Banana spiders are everywhere.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 2:03 pm to Slippy
Posted on 11/8/21 at 2:06 pm to Slippy
Got a few on the back porch. They’re hideous monsters, but they earn their keep eating the mosquitoes. So I’m for em.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 2:08 pm to KLSU
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These people must have never set foot in the forests in Louisiana or Mississippi then!
Early in the fall late summer Banana spiders are everywhere.
We have bananas and orbs here in GA as well, but these Joros are like nothing I have never seen before. I probably saw over 10k webs on the way to kids soccer game on Saturday. They are in almost every foot of powerline, bushes, small trees, etc..
This post was edited on 11/8/21 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 11/8/21 at 2:13 pm to NYCAuburn
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I probably saw over 10k webs on the way to kids soccer game on Saturday.
Good.
Spiders > mosquitoes, gnats, and flies
Posted on 11/8/21 at 2:15 pm to Slippy
Posted on 11/8/21 at 2:37 pm to Slippy
Thermonuclear that shite to keep them out of Louisiana
Posted on 11/8/21 at 2:51 pm to dcw7g
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That ain't nothing but a banana spider
This is what I call them. They've been here in east central Georgia for a couple decades at least. I used to have several in my yard every late summer but I haven't seen one this year
Posted on 11/8/21 at 2:55 pm to BPTiger
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Jumped in and slammed the door. The spider chose the mirror instead of the tree. I thought, no problem, it’ll blow off on the ride home. I was driving 50 MPH. And that thing was whipping around in the wind but it never let go. Eventually we got to a stop light and it climbed up and tucked itself under the lip of the mirror.
It is a now a resident in the side of my yard. I pray to god it never builds over my deck and I walk out one night into a face off of giant spiderweb and spider.
This is my nightmare. I'm really sorry I read this today!
Posted on 11/8/21 at 3:03 pm to Slippy
Ain’t afraid of no spider that skips leg day!
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