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If you ever look at a spiderweb next to a road, they’re jiggling and shaking, and it’s a cacophony of stimuli. … But Jorōs seem to be able to live next to them.
Oh great—Chaos Spiders.
Yep. Like when you randomly walk into one or two of those webs face first at night. Sticky creepy chaos (boop!)
GET. OUT.
I did this once but with a yellow orbed weaver in the woods. I couldn't stop shaking for the majority of the night. Fuck spiders yo, they're awesome, as long as they aren't on me.
This isn't unusual for over 20 years I've been seeing big ole chunky spiders that are resistant to being blasted WITH THE JET SETTING FROM THE HOSE DIRECTLY. lol. steel webs. I welcome the superspiders, some people in this thread (not you) are clearly WEAK
Good thing this ain't human.
Fuck these things. Even if they aren't bad for the environment, they absolutely wreck your yard. In the summer, each week, I'll go around my yard and clean out 15-16 massive webs. Some of them 40 feet up. Most of them face level. The webs are strong so they easily get filled with leaves. Your yard ends up looking like a fucking haunted house with webs everywhere and leaves floating in the sky. Not to mention the females are HUGE - 6 inches across the legs sometimes. Total nightmares.
so then, do they get along with other spiders as well? maybe we can finally farm some spider silk without the genetic splicing?
I've seen a lot of Joro webs that are interlocking, with 3+ spiders living in web complexes. It's quite unpleasant to run into face-first, but interesting to see. It doesn't answer your question, but they seem more tolerant of each other than most other spider species.
I think that we're likely better off trying to synthesize spider silk than cultivate it though.
Does that mean we accidentally domesticated these little guys? Because I don't know if that's cute, funny, or terrifying.
They're very close to what people call garden spiders or corn spiders that are all over the US.
They're big and creepy, but they're harmless.
If you pick one up and handle it enough that it gets pissed off and bites you, it'll be equivalent to a bee sting.
If you don't pick it up and piss it off there's 0% chance of you getting bit by one.
I haven't seen one of these in ages. Maybe they are more acclimated to the Florida region like the rest of invasive things.
Florida has a different orb weaver that is native. These are smaller but much more prolific. Northish Georgia for me and we have to clear them out of place we walk like our vegetable garden or front door at least once a week.
Better call in the EDF.