Giant Joro ‘flying’ spider continues march northward with Massachusetts sighting

A palm-sized, brightly colored invasive taxon has made its mode to Massachusetts – with 1 being spotted successful Boston's historical Beacon Hill neighborhood. 

According to WCVB, nonmigratory Joe Schifferdecker precocious spotted the distinctive bright-yellow bands connected the spider's achromatic legs successful his neighborhood.

"It's astonishing that it's successful the mediate of Boston connected [a] main thoroughfare and yet this is supposedly the archetypal 1 successful each of Massachusetts that's been sighted," Schifferdecker told the outlet. 

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A yellowish Joro spider successful its web. (iStock)

Earlier successful the summer, scientists warned that the invasive species could marque its determination from the South into the Northeast. The Joro spider's Boston quality this week is its northernmost sighting.

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But spider experts accidental radical shouldn’t beryllium excessively disquieted astir the venomous East Asian arthropod, which gives an illusion of "flying" done the aerial with its elaborate silk webs.

"My consciousness is radical similar the weird and fantastic and perchance dangerous," said David Nelsen, a prof of biology astatine Southern Adventist University who has studied the increasing scope of Joro spiders, which has been connected the determination successful the U.S. for the past decade. "This is 1 of those things that benignant of checks each the boxes for nationalist hysteria."

The Joro spider, a ample spider autochthonal to East Asia, is spotted successful Johns Creek, Ga., successful 2021.  (AP Photo/Alex Sanz, File)

What is the Joro spider?

The Joro spider is 1 of a radical of spiders called orb-weavers, named for their wheel-shaped webs. 

They're autochthonal to East Asia, person agleam yellowish and achromatic coloring and females tin beryllium 3 to six inches agelong erstwhile afloat stretched out, and are treble the size of males. 

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They airs nary menace to humans.

Adult Joro spiders are usually spotted betwixt August and September.

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