Striking in color and size as they may be, however, Joro spiders aren’t a danger to humans.
The New York tri-state area is poised to have some large eight-legged tourists this summer. Experts are warning that the invasive Joro spider could soon touch down in parts of New York and New Jersey. Striking in color and size as they may be, however, the arachnids aren’t a danger to humans. The Joro spider is common to several parts of Asia, though it holds special significance in Japan, being linked to the mythical shape-shifting creature jorogumo.
“Right now, we are seeing them dispersing into Maryland, so soon enough, possibly even next year, they should be in New Jersey and New York,’’ José Ramírez-Garofalo, an ecologist in the Lockwood Lab at Rutgers University, told the Staten Island Advance last fall. “It is a matter of when, not if.” Thankfully, these arachnids are more bark than bite.
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