Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman 12/15/2023
Bonus: the Murder Hornet’s Cousin Is Now in the U.S.
We have covered the expansion of invasive species, including murder hornets, giant snails, and lanternflies.
Now, there are reports that enormous eight-inch-long spiders from Asia are weaving their way up the US East Coast and spreading out west.
Experts say the Jorō spider can fly 50 to 100 miles at a stretch, using their webbing as a parasail to glide in the wind, and it’s now also hitching rides up east coast highways — but the creatures aren’t known to pose a threat to humans or pets.
However, the jury is still out on the impact that this giant spider, which is believed to have first arrived in the US a decade ago via shipping containers arriving in Georgia, might have on local wildlife.
One thing that is certain, according to an ecologist at Rutgers University’s Lockwood Lab in New Jersey, who spoke with DailyMail.com: ‘Soon enough, possibly even next year, they should be in New Jersey and New York.’
More:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/giant-spiders-from-asia-now-weaving-their-way-up-the-us-east-coast/
