Giant spiders are invading the Southeast {Joro Spiders}

[Darren_Garrison]

@Rick_Kitchen

The article says they’re venomous

All spiders are venomous. It is how they get food.

Also,

*Please* let that be a mistake!

I’ve started a project to gather all of the photos of spiders I have taken over the last 20 years of having digital cameras, and with any luck identifying them. So tonight I find a few that I took of a spider on my front porch in 2010. [Album] imgur.com [imgur.com] I let Google Lens have a try at it, it comes back with a very good m…

And some posts in the “Today in Nature” thread.

Today in nature I saw

My Joro has roommates that I’ve just started seeing, tiny kleptoparasitic spiders living in the web to feed off the Joro’s leftovers. (There is a huge size difference—the one in the bottom left of the first shot can’t be more than a thousandth of the Joro’s mass.) [image] [image]