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Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia
March 3, 2022
New research suggests the spiders could colonize the entire East Coast
If you live in Georgia, it’s hard not to notice the state’s latest resident.
The bright yellow, blue-black and red spiders’ golden webs will be all over power lines, in trees around town and even on your front porch come summer.
The Joro spider first arrived stateside around 2013 and has since spread across the state and Southeast. But new research from the University of Georgia suggests the invasive arachnids could spread through most of the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S.
There’s really nothing we can do to stop them. But that’s not necessarily bad news.
https://news.uga.edu/joro-spiders-li...eyond-georgia/
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