Daily News | Is the scary-looking jorō spider really coming to the Northeast U.S. and Philly?
by a professor and student from Georgia has spun a web of stories that the invasive jorō spider, Trichonephila clavata, might soon be dangling from threads in the Northeast because it can survive cooler temperatures.
In fact, there have been 2,031 sightings in Georgia detailed in iNaturalist. The spider has spread to North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Oklahoma, according to the researchers. Some news reports suggested the spider will soon permeate the Northeast. If they do arrive here, the researchers wrote, it will likely be through human transport, though they can travel locally, sometimes for miles, by stretching out a silk thread and catching a breeze.The researchers cautioned they have “no way of knowing if and how far the jorō spider range will expand,” though they noted the latitudes of the arachnid’s range in eastern Asia overlaps most of the latitudes in the U.S.
If they do arrive locally, Gelhaus said, the big issue could be with other spiders and native species of insects, not humans, because they’ll be competing for space and food. They could overtake some local species because they might not be susceptible to local parasites.If jorō spiders do arrive, will they have a big impact?
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