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re: Giant Joro Spider is invading Alabama
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:11 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:11 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Will it eat kudzu?
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Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:11 pm to UndercoverBryologist
They eat the brown marmorated stink bug, which is an arsehole that not much else eats. So, it ain't all bad.
This post was edited on 3/3/22 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:25 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Welp, there go crawfish prices.
How much meat is in those spiders?
How much meat is in those spiders?
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:29 pm to tgr4ever
Up in north GA they have exploded in the fall. Their webs are usually ten or so feet off the ground.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:30 pm to SlapahoeTribe
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There’s a local state park that isn’t well trafficked and a few weeks each year when I’m hiking I have to bring a stick with me just to knock down the webs. Probably a hundred or more in less than eight miles of trails.
I hear ya, it makes Baton Rouge hikes brutal. I used to snipe them with a pellet gun in my back yard.
This post was edited on 3/3/22 at 8:31 pm
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:34 pm to Jcorye1
well is their bite worst than banana spider’s because if i don’t run into a dozen of their webs during turkey season, I am not even trying.
They typically will not bite you but nothing like feeling something crawling across your arm or face and looking down to see those giant things
They typically will not bite you but nothing like feeling something crawling across your arm or face and looking down to see those giant things
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:43 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:46 pm to TutHillTiger
Golden Orb Weavers don't really have a bad bite.
Banana Spiders on the other hand are extremely dangerous. I remember when I worked at a fruit stand, we saw one, and I think DEQ burned all of our bananas.
Banana Spiders on the other hand are extremely dangerous. I remember when I worked at a fruit stand, we saw one, and I think DEQ burned all of our bananas.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:48 pm to UndercoverBryologist
That spider is so pretty!
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:53 pm to Aspercel
It is a pretty spider.
And TBH, spiders don't bother me. They keep the bugs in check.
And TBH, spiders don't bother me. They keep the bugs in check.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:56 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Same. I’m usually a spider saver, but the black widows and brown recluse that live in my tack box get sentenced to death. I stick my hands in there digging around too much for that.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:58 pm to UndercoverBryologist
So Georgia finally beats Alabama and now they do this?
Posted on 3/3/22 at 9:03 pm to Jcorye1
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I used to snipe them with a pellet gun in my back yard.
They don’t look bigger than 2 meters.
Did you also bullseye womprats on your t-16?
Posted on 3/3/22 at 9:06 pm to Nguyener
i got bite by damn brown recluse while turkey hunting few years ago, its not a pleasant experience. A big section of my shin had no feeling for about 6 months. I was lucky
Posted on 3/3/22 at 9:09 pm to noonan
Posted on 3/3/22 at 9:12 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
These things have been around the past 2 years in Atlanta. They are fricking everywhere - trees, power lines, house awnings, bushes. You haven’t experienced life until you walk through one of their thick arse webs and realize you have 3 5 inch Joro spiders on your face and you have to hit the deck.
This post was edited on 3/3/22 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 3/3/22 at 9:13 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
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And TBH, spiders don't bother me. They keep the bugs in check.
The biggest concern with this spider is that it is a non-native species. It will have an impact on other spiders and bugs, we just don't know what that impact will be. The webs they make are huge, and introducing them to our ecosystems could prove problematic for other species.
That said, they have a taste for brown stink bugs, which also come from the same area this spider comes from, so....let them eat for now.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 3:33 am to redneck hippie
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When I’m out in the pasture at dawn and the sun and dew hit just right, the number of webs you can see is amazing. Must literally be tens of thousands.
I’ve seen that too. It was amazing at first. Hate to tell ya buddy. Those aren’t all spider webs.
Have you ever randomly looked up in the sky lately? Look up and watch.
I live in bum frick Egypt Louisiana with the only commercial flight path even close to us is NO/BTR flying to Memphis.
Yet most days a person around here could sit on the back porch and watch the airliners spray god knows what on this land in multi tick tack toe fashion.
And if a person pays really close attention, spider web-like stuff slowly falls to the ground landing on everything around.
Looks exactly like spider webs. It’s not.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 3:39 am to Spirit of Dunson
I’ve already seen them in Bama at my relatives. They make HUGE nest across multiple trees.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 3:45 am to UndercoverBryologist
It already got this poor bastard. 
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