# Giant spiders are invading the Southeast {Joro Spiders} **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 5, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-spiders-are-invading-the-southeast-joro-spiders/960491 "2022-03-05T00:52:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-spiders-are-invading-the-southeast-joro-spiders/960491/6 "2022-03-05T03:58:52Z")
> [@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!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-let-that-be-a-mistake/916697): > > 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] ](https://imgur.com/a/LOZ0okM) 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](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/1020): > > 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] ](https://i.imgur.com/Gizvisd.jpeg)[[image] ](https://i.imgur.com/fZ77hrF.jpeg) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-spiders-are-invading-the-southeast-joro-spiders/960491)._