Joro Spiders Coming To New Jersey – NJ in Summer 2024

According to several reports, New Jersey expected to welcome the Joro spider, a spider the size of Post-it Notes that has become increasingly popular in southern U.S. states since 2021, as early as this summer 2024.

This species, native to East Asia, can reach sizes up to the palm of a human hand and spins webs shaped like a wheel; males are brown, while females display brilliant colors in shades of red, blue, and yellow.

Even though the spider’s venom is safe for people and animals, its “unusually large” size can be difficult on its own, and arachnophobic New Jerseyans may soon find it disturbing.

In October of last year, reports of the spiders came as close as Maryland.

“They ought to be in New Jersey and New York soon enough, maybe even next year,” José Ramírez-Garofalo, an ecologist and Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, stated to SILive.com in December of last year.

The species travels via parachuting, which is a technique for producing silk that enables the spiders to fly in the wind. A Joro spider may migrate to northern states as early as this summer if northern breezes and spiderling deliveries coincide.

According to study scientist Andy Davis of the University of Georgia, it is “only a matter of time” before Joro spiders make their way to New Jersey and New York, as he told The New York Times last year.

Considering that areas of Asia where spiders are found in number share the same latitude as the Mid-Atlantic states, it makes sense for the spiders to travel there next.

One study found that the species has nearly double the metabolism of its cousins and can withstand a brief frost that kills off other spiders.

He informed the publication, “New York is right in the middle of where they would like to be.”

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