They are beautiful spiders. And their web is GOLD! The silk is actually a golden yellow color. And when the sun hits the web the shimmer is spectacular. We have them here in Ga as they mentioned. But they aren't around daily. They have a season. They start in August and last into October. Before and after that you will never see one. But when they are in season, they are everywhere
The lantern flies are pretty colors too. Really, they are. But they bid fair to harm the fruit growers big time. (How's the South doing with that damn kudzu, BTW?) PS from the sound of it, these spiders are now everywhere in the only decently cool part of the warm weather down there! October, not August, of course.
I saw one of them the first time ever. I was walking down the sidewalk, just exploring my campus, when I saw that massive gold web. They're so beautiful, I'm glad I got to see one in real life rather than just a photo.
Ummm, most baby spiders do ballooning. It's very, very common. That's how they find new homes right after they hatch. Send out some webbing and float around on the breeze until they land someplace.
It's annoying when fear is stoked up like this about harmless animals. They're orb weavers not much different than the ones in the garden. All spiders are venomous. Like, every single type. And yet most are completely harmless to people. This is not flying Brazilian Wandering Spiders for chrissakes.
Not true. "When you think of dangerous spiders, you probably envision black widows and brown recluses. However, most people are surprised to learn that nearly all species of spiders are venomous - only a couple species lack venom glands."
Harm to pets seems quite possible by their size, and if nothing eats THEM here they will soon be out of control like the lantern flies, which THEY eat. They are possibly very dangerous to the ecosystem of North America, like so many Asian species of insect and plant and fish.
I live in Georgia and there is one main difference: these things are everywhere. I over 50 in my small yard and they thought to be displacing native spiders.
Spiders aren't scary and snakes.Try eats and roaches in NYC. I think the only reason people have a fear of them is due to Hollywood making stupid movies. There's one movie, I forgot the name but it's about spiders and it's so stupid
They are harmless and help control the mosquito population. PA should be happy. Here in Colorado our orb weavers are very tiny because of our altitude. But I'm always happy to find a few in the garden in the spring.
PA here, We are starting to get tons of the spotted lanternflies the last couple years and last year it was all over our news that we would have the Joro's because they eat the lanternflies. Seen several lanternflies inside and out but no Joro's and hope it stays that way. I'll take the mosquitos and lanternflies. Lol
@@gern5168 Are Lanternflies the same as Fireflies? I thought they were poisonous. We don't get them here either. Loved seeing them in Iowa. Love Fireflies, but really hate mosquitos....
@@Tarsier-r9z I lived in the Lewistown/Mifflinburg area for a few years and stink bugs were a daily occurrence. Every night when I turned off the lights to go to bed you would hear the clicking of them hitting the wall or ceiling. I had never seen a stink bug before I moved there. And during the years I lived there, it was the year for the cicadas. Holy crap were they everywhere. I had never seen or heard anything like them where I grew up.
Argiopes are orb weavers. Joro spiders look like they are part of the Argiope family, I'd have to see their web to confirm it though. They are large but not dangerous to humans. Just checked their webs are similar to other orb weavers.
Relax with the spiders, alright? We had the yellow garden spider growing up and it was gorgeous, no fear of it at all. I suspect the same for the new yellow spider.
That "yellow garden" variety was native to where I grew up. I never saw _many_ in any given area, but having access to both large swaths of prairie to the east and old growth forest to the west (with creeks common to both areas), I saw more than I ever wanted to throughout my childhood.
@@eric2500 In the town furthest south from Chicago that still qualified as being in "Chicagoland"; After us, towns started having distance (and farms) between them. Most of the forest lands followed the Illinois-Indiana border going south, pushing out on both sides the further south you go; North was all steel mills (Calumet City and surrounding areas).
Beautiful Spiders... Florida has beautiful large spiders on A1A (Boca area) If you walk down A1A along the mansions are mansion size spiders and spider webs.
That's not even funny considering there's people living with AIDS that accidentally caught it through birth by parents or because a mistake by a hospital. Surely you must be like 12 or somewhere in your teens?
The black widow baby spider also goes to the tops of trees and creates a parachute in order to spread out. The ballooning is nothing new if it's just the babies that do it, other spiders also do it
They’re beautiful. And for those of us who know nothing of spiders, but hate them…. Ballooning is how spiders normally travel when they’re babies, and we don’t need to fear them. We need to fear the damage invasive species are doing to other non-human species. You can thank mankind, for speeding up global warming, for that one.
Joro spiders are from Asia. They don't hurt humans. They do catch spotted lanternflies that arrived in PA via shipments from Asia in 2014. Spotted lanternflies have no preditors. If Joro spiders can slow down lanternflies- that is great! Lanternflies can ruin grapes, trees, plants, etc.
Lmao, posted this before but just send a spiderwise Aussie Kid, He or She will sort it for you. Just wait till they decide to move in with you just like here and setting up a nice cosy home to rear thousands of spiderlings, cute to watch LOL
They probably COULD eat a small bird like a hummingbird or something, but it’s not common at all. Also tons of animals in our ecosystem eat spiders, and these would be no different. There are spiders here bigger than these, and they get eaten.
I could swear that I saw one in the morning, in the bushes in the front of a house in CT about ten years ago. I know that it was big and blak and yellow like that. Maybe it was that orb weaver he was talking about. Luckily we don't get those in the house...
I live in Georgia with them, not them with me, I don't mess with them Had a big spider walking across my bedroom floor a few days ago, I took pic and showed my son and he said Mom that's a banana spider, it won't hurt you, I said I know it won't now😱😀
Birds mostly since they spend most of their time in webs, but if they’re on the ground they’d be eaten by raccoons, foxes, potentially coyotes, lizards, snakes, and other spiders/insects.
Yet another bunch of BS by the media to get attention. These spiders are pretty much exactly like harmless "Orb Weaver" spiders. They are cool as hell and totally harmless.
That is typically a sign of being dangerous, but there are tons of animals that use what’s called Aposematic mimicry, which is when a completely harmless animal shares similarities with a dangerous animal, in hopes of being mistaken for something dangerous. Joro spiders are not harmful, and if you do manage to get bitten, it’s just gonna sting for a bit and get a little red, unless you have a rare allergic reaction you really won’t even need medical attention.
Only ther babies move through the air and they aren't dangerous unless threatened. We're literally surrounded by spiders at all times and we only see a few here and there. While I get being concerned, chances are you won't even seen them anywhere but outside, but the more spiders you have in your home and yard, the fewer other pests. Just don't touch them and if you see one, leave it alone and you'll be fine. Sincerely, and Australian.
I’ve seen thee Joro in Ohio since1977. I see them fairly regularly also in West Virginia and Virginia. I’m not sure where this guys getting his information
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Whoever is holding that has a death sentence...i have seen them in Connecticut so i don't know how this managed to skip some states and move along to other northern states
California is home to the only scorpion in the United States that is considered deadly. I’d prefer the slightly oversized but harmless spider personally 😭
No adult spider, especially one the size of a Joro Spider, is capable of flying, or even ballooning. Only freshly hatched spiderlings can balloon.
That totally makes sense. Thank you for the info.
100% correct. This is fearmongering to the next level.
He says right in the video it's not the adult ones, only baby ones but thanks for the repeat.
I still don't like that, at all. 😂
Actually spiders can generally throw there webs when the wind is going and catch a ride I have witnessed lots of spiders that have done this
They are beautiful spiders. And their web is GOLD! The silk is actually a golden yellow color. And when the sun hits the web the shimmer is spectacular. We have them here in Ga as they mentioned. But they aren't around daily. They have a season. They start in August and last into October. Before and after that you will never see one. But when they are in season, they are everywhere
The lantern flies are pretty colors too. Really, they are. But they bid fair to harm the fruit growers big time. (How's the South doing with that damn kudzu, BTW?)
PS from the sound of it, these spiders are now everywhere in the only decently cool part of the warm weather down there! October, not August, of course.
@@eric2500these spiders eat lantern bug tho and stink bugs, it’s a good thing
I saw one of them the first time ever. I was walking down the sidewalk, just exploring my campus, when I saw that massive gold web. They're so beautiful, I'm glad I got to see one in real life rather than just a photo.
I live in Georgia, and I can't believe how many of these spiders we have. Maybe they will eat up our mosquitoes.
WELL DO THEY?
I hate spiders!
Now I can put Georgia on my list of not going there. Eat the mosquitoes ? I’m more concerned about what eating those spiders and how big is it !!!
Still waiting for them to show up in Oregon. I want one.
Same hoping for them to make it to Florida 😭
Ummm, most baby spiders do ballooning. It's very, very common. That's how they find new homes right after they hatch. Send out some webbing and float around on the breeze until they land someplace.
Charlotte?! Charlotte!
0:23 if those are 4 inch legs then that person has 16 inch long fingers. local media so desperate for attention they need to exaggerate everything.
😂 🍻
Four inches total body size is creepy enough for me, thanks.
All media exaggerate everything to sell advertising.
They worded it poorly. 4" leg span, not each leg is 4". Amateurs, the lot of the proof readers and so on.
It's annoying when fear is stoked up like this about harmless animals. They're orb weavers not much different than the ones in the garden. All spiders are venomous. Like, every single type. And yet most are completely harmless to people. This is not flying Brazilian Wandering Spiders for chrissakes.
Not true. "When you think of dangerous spiders, you probably envision black widows and brown recluses. However, most people are surprised to learn that nearly all species of spiders are venomous - only a couple species lack venom glands."
Harm to pets seems quite possible by their size, and if nothing eats THEM here they will soon be out of control like the lantern flies, which THEY eat.
They are possibly very dangerous to the ecosystem of North America, like so many Asian species of insect and plant and fish.
A daddy long legs is most venomous spider but it can’t bite you because it’s fangs are too short.
@@lamarw7757 A daddy long legs is most venomous spider but it can’t bite you because it’s fangs are too short.
I live in Georgia and there is one main difference: these things are everywhere. I over 50 in my small yard and they thought to be displacing native spiders.
You'll think you're safe in PA until you wake up one morning and see dozens of webs on your trees and home. By then, it will be too late.
Oh hell no flying spiders
That's how they travel fam, especially when they first hatch to get away from the cannibal siblings... why do you not seem to know this?
Yeah, like it wasn't bad enough they're 4 inches wide. "Only the little ones fly" So,that's not a relief either lol
😂🤣
@@Jerseyboondocks tell me about it 😂😂😂
Spiders aren't scary and snakes.Try eats and roaches in NYC. I think the only reason people have a fear of them is due to Hollywood making stupid movies. There's one movie, I forgot the name but it's about spiders and it's so stupid
They also eat lantern flies, among other pests, so treat our helpful spider friends gently if you see them.
An invasive that eats invasives isn't exactly a win. Ideally, both would be absent.
@@Nvenom8.not all invasive species are harmful. The lanternfly is insanely harmful, so as long as the spiders stay under control it’ll be a positive.
Maybe God sent them for help to get rid of the things
So where did the invasive spider come from originally? That's a question a responsible reporter should have asked.
From the last video I watched on this, they came from Japan. Some got caught in a shipping container and ended up in Georgia.
They used to be called "banana spiders," so take a guess.
These aren't banana spiders, but are similar.
@@CuriousMess61 A new take on the "yellow peril."
One said they came from Asia originally 😅
They are harmless and help control the mosquito population. PA should be happy. Here in Colorado our orb weavers are very tiny because of our altitude. But I'm always happy to find a few in the garden in the spring.
PA here, We are starting to get tons of the spotted lanternflies the last couple years and last year it was all over our news that we would have the Joro's because they eat the lanternflies. Seen several lanternflies inside and out but no Joro's and hope it stays that way. I'll take the mosquitos and lanternflies. Lol
@@gern5168 Are Lanternflies the same as Fireflies? I thought they were poisonous. We don't get them here either. Loved seeing them in Iowa. Love Fireflies, but really hate mosquitos....
@@gern5168 it’s weird as in the southern pa near Gettysburg I barley see spotted lantern flys I see more stink bugs though
@@Tarsier-r9z I lived in the Lewistown/Mifflinburg area for a few years and stink bugs were a daily occurrence. Every night when I turned off the lights to go to bed you would hear the clicking of them hitting the wall or ceiling. I had never seen a stink bug before I moved there. And during the years I lived there, it was the year for the cicadas. Holy crap were they everywhere. I had never seen or heard anything like them where I grew up.
Argiopes are orb weavers. Joro spiders look like they are part of the Argiope family, I'd have to see their web to confirm it though. They are large but not dangerous to humans. Just checked their webs are similar to other orb weavers.
Relax with the spiders, alright? We had the yellow garden spider growing up and it was gorgeous, no fear of it at all. I suspect the same for the new yellow spider.
That "yellow garden" variety was native to where I grew up. I never saw _many_ in any given area, but having access to both large swaths of prairie to the east and old growth forest to the west (with creeks common to both areas), I saw more than I ever wanted to throughout my childhood.
WHERE did you grow up?
@@eric2500 In the town furthest south from Chicago that still qualified as being in "Chicagoland"; After us, towns started having distance (and farms) between them. Most of the forest lands followed the Illinois-Indiana border going south, pushing out on both sides the further south you go; North was all steel mills (Calumet City and surrounding areas).
I don’t care that its not harmful…
This sh*t is awesome. Imagine waking up and its above you in a newly formed silk web. Yikes!
As a tarantula and true spider keeper, I'm looking forward to snagging one of these for my collection. Life finds a way.
I'm not worried about those. It's those Spider Pigs that worry me! 🤪
a lot of spiders 'fly' using web. are the Joro web weavers?
Yes, they are simply common orb weavers.
yes! and they spin a GOLD WEB!!
They're cousins of our native Golden Silk Orb Weavers (Trichonephila Clavipes).
@@DadBodDrumming i bet gold webs look really wonderful.
Beautiful Spiders... Florida has beautiful large spiders on A1A (Boca area) If you walk down A1A along the mansions are mansion size spiders and spider webs.
I heard they carry space Aids
😁😁😁
Can confirm.
yup, ancient aliens. 😂 🍻
I heard they eat hobbits.
That's not even funny considering there's people living with AIDS that accidentally caught it through birth by parents or because a mistake by a hospital. Surely you must be like 12 or somewhere in your teens?
The black widow baby spider also goes to the tops of trees and creates a parachute in order to spread out. The ballooning is nothing new if it's just the babies that do it, other spiders also do it
The Argiope spider is also shown , AKA the black and yellow garden spider has been in the region for ever.
I saw one in Northampton, PA about 6 years ago.
If you only saw 1, you didn’t see one.
ALL baby spiders use their web as a parachute, or “ballooning”. 🕷️
Makes me wonder if Charlotte was one of these. Her babies took off by ballooning, too.
lmao
@@SkinCareLuver I see you never read the book.
This footage was very helpful. Thank you for covering it. I can now sleep at night. 😅
I am from NC we have had these spiders for years
They closely resemble writing (Garden) spiders.
Unless you have about 100 in your yard and they don’t reach full size until mid September, you don’t have them.
I’m dead now I have arachnophobia
They're so pretty 💖
I Love Spider's 🕷️
They are beautiful and important.
Important for what? They're not native.
@@kidwichita Eating unwanted insects. Are you scared of spiders?! Cope. They're here.
Leave them alone - the tax collector is the problem - not the spider.
Looks Blue and Black to me
"they can fly" man its only the babies that do that please don't needlessly freak people out
What a croc, more shock.
Looks like something from the Upside Down World
They’re beautiful.
And for those of us who know nothing of spiders, but hate them….
Ballooning is how spiders normally travel when they’re babies, and we don’t need to fear them.
We need to fear the damage invasive species are doing to other non-human species. You can thank mankind, for speeding up global warming, for that one.
Joro spiders are from Asia. They don't hurt humans. They do catch spotted lanternflies that arrived in PA via shipments from Asia in 2014. Spotted lanternflies have no preditors. If Joro spiders can slow down lanternflies- that is great! Lanternflies can ruin grapes, trees, plants, etc.
Oh big deal. Yawn. They are not harmful.
We had one in our yard in Maine several years back
They closely resemble writing (Garden) spiders. /\/\/\/\
They are amazing 😍
Remember, Camera man never dies.
Lmao, posted this before but just send a spiderwise Aussie Kid, He or She will sort it for you. Just wait till they decide to move in with you just like here and setting up a nice cosy home to rear thousands of spiderlings, cute to watch LOL
Thank you for laying out what my nightmare will be tonight! 😂😂
Okay, where in Asia do they come from?
I hear they can eat small birds. DOES ANYTHING IN OUR NATIVE ECOSYSTEM EAT THEM?
They probably COULD eat a small bird like a hummingbird or something, but it’s not common at all. Also tons of animals in our ecosystem eat spiders, and these would be no different. There are spiders here bigger than these, and they get eaten.
I could swear that I saw one in the morning, in the bushes in the front of a house in CT about ten years ago. I know that it was big and blak and yellow like that. Maybe it was that orb weaver he was talking about. Luckily we don't get those in the house...
Spider big enough to eat a hobbit.
Black and Gold….Pittsburgh Steeler spiders!
💯
Seen them in the Eighty's in Ghost Buster's Outfits lol!
So, they just going to Uber they way up north.
Lfyt would've been so much funnier
OH WOW!!! I am in OHIO and will be on the lookout for THESE!
Cool spider.
They're completely harmless not unless you're forcefully holding it and make it bite you and are edible!
Which Fallout is this?
They are in Upstate NY
No they aren’t
Not yet, but soon. 6 have arrived in Pennsylvania. The first one was seen in a yard on September 5th.
@@TigBud In the Southern Tier they have been here for five years or so. Harmless, and impressively big web and spider.
@@TigBud if you see 6, you aren’t seeing a Joro spider. The 1st year they showed up in Georgia, my yard had about 100 of them.
I’ve seen them or similar spiders in the Pennsylvania mountains for the last 3 1/2 years
I feel like I've seen these while hunting mistaken for garden spiders.
Not in PA
I Think That Joro Spider's Are Very Pretty! And Their Not Dangerous At All! Shalom And Amen!✝️✝️🛐🛐😇🌟🤗🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅❤❤❤‼️
I live in Georgia with them, not them with me, I don't mess with them
Had a big spider walking across my bedroom floor a few days ago, I took pic and showed my son and he said Mom that's a banana spider, it won't hurt you, I said I know it won't now😱😀
Awesome!
I remember the threat from the killer Bees coming to America in the 70's. That never happened.
Does anything eat THEM?
Birds mostly since they spend most of their time in webs, but if they’re on the ground they’d be eaten by raccoons, foxes, potentially coyotes, lizards, snakes, and other spiders/insects.
Birds need food too 👍
The hell ? Fear mongers.
Yet another bunch of BS by the media to get attention. These spiders are pretty much exactly like harmless "Orb Weaver" spiders. They are cool as hell and totally harmless.
Beautiful spider.
Yikes yikes yikes
Monster flying spiders are so scary
Not as dangerous as a.tyrannical:moon:bat…🦇
Gorgeous gorgeous! - Steve Irwin
Bright colors and red dot says NOPE
That is typically a sign of being dangerous, but there are tons of animals that use what’s called Aposematic mimicry, which is when a completely harmless animal shares similarities with a dangerous animal, in hopes of being mistaken for something dangerous. Joro spiders are not harmful, and if you do manage to get bitten, it’s just gonna sting for a bit and get a little red, unless you have a rare allergic reaction you really won’t even need medical attention.
Only ther babies move through the air and they aren't dangerous unless threatened. We're literally surrounded by spiders at all times and we only see a few here and there. While I get being concerned, chances are you won't even seen them anywhere but outside, but the more spiders you have in your home and yard, the fewer other pests. Just don't touch them and if you see one, leave it alone and you'll be fine.
Sincerely, and Australian.
Pretty good horror movie script right there. Paraspiders From Mars.
Pretty!
They are just like the grass spiders we have
I’ve seen thee Joro in Ohio since1977. I see them fairly regularly also in West Virginia and Virginia.
I’m not sure where this guys getting his information
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Why is being "black and gold", "redeeming", what a weird comment. Hate the media. 🙄
Because this news is out of Pittsburgh.
Are Joros as tasty as churros?
Sounds like a don patch quote.
Literally lol.
are normies really only just discovering spiders can do this? damm
Well it's pretty
The real joe got his shot in 2019. The new joe has brown eyes, different ears, droopy neck skin, etc. Arthur Roberts actor.
I can only imagine, the big mess that will be made on the wall, if I have to take a shoe to that large body spider. 🤮
They are Pittsburgh Sports teams colors
I live in Orange county NY. And I fear spiders like nothing else! If this thing lands on me, I'm panicking!😳😳😳
Anyone who has seen Charlottes Web knows what’s up lol. 😂
😱 Spiders 🕷 😳!
It's really a shame they're invasive. They're very pretty.
Whoever is holding that has a death sentence...i have seen them in Connecticut so i don't know how this managed to skip some states and move along to other northern states
Thank God I'm in California
California is home to the only scorpion in the United States that is considered deadly. I’d prefer the slightly oversized but harmless spider personally 😭
Scaremongering = profits. These are perfect words to describe lamestream media.
What the heck is that?
I pray I never see one or they wont have to feed me no more
Four inches is a tiny hand lol
One more reason I don’t want to go to Pennsylvania !!!!
😢😢😢poor hummingbirds will get stuck in their webs, 😢😢
Harmless spiders 🕷
World war 3 / The arachnid war
TL,DW: No.
Jojo?
Dio!
Pls just stay over there….lol don’t come to California!! 😳😬😖🥴🫣
Black n gold, black n gold