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Joro Spider
30.09.2024 - 12:59 / hgic.clemson.edu
South Carolina is home to three big, yellow spiders, and as summer heats up, they get more and more noticeable. One of these spiders is the Joro spider, a non-native species first found in northern Georgia in 2014. The Joro spider is now present in the Upstate and parts of the Midlands in South Carolina. These spiders can be nearly 3” across with their legs spread.
Joro spiders overwinter as eggs, which hatch in late spring. Juvenile Joro spiders can be seen beginning in early May, making webs on practically anything: homes, decks, porches, landscape plants, and natural areas. Webs and spiders will get progressively larger until about September, when the large adult females are very noticeable due to their bright coloration. Males are much smaller, drab brown in color, and can often be seen in the webs along with the females.
There is no evidence that Joro spiders are dangerous to people or pets, though they can be a nuisance as they tend to put their webs on many different structures that are commonly used by people. Joro spiders are a nuisance and where they need to be removed, simply use a stick to move the web and spider to another location. Pesticides will kill individual spiders, but if you kill one, more are likely to move into that area. We do not recommend using fire (due to safety reasons) as a management tactic. Check out this video by Clemson Extension, which talks all about these large spiders.
If you see a Joro spider, please report it to the iNaturalist project “Orb weaving spiders in the Southeastern USA”. iNaturalist is a free online community platform for reporting flora and fauna sightings. Your contributions will help us learn much more about this species.
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