#joro orb weaver

[lionmom-svenomverse]

Sharing the concept art for my Chryslestia family! Gonna have to snip a lot of HCs/notes so you can find the full thing over on my dA. Anyways, more info under the cut!

💙 Queen Celestia - Ruler of Equestria. Sun Deity. Royal Batpony Alicorn (With Heliacorn Attributes). Agender (She/he/it/they), Pansexual Demi 💙 Queen Chrysalis - Ruler of Equestria, Former Queen of the Changeling Hive. Reformed/Former Villain. Non-Reformed Queen Changeling. Nonbinary (It/xey/they/she), Bisexual Demi 💙 Princess Antlion Aphid - Princess of Equestria. Heir to the Sun. Solar Astronomer/Engineer. Has anxiety. Royal Alicorn-Changeling Hybrid (With Batpony/Heliacorn Attributes). 35 y/o. Nonbinary (It/its and She/her mainly), Lesbian. Likes studying the sun, sundresses, large hats, hosting parties, yoga, calligraphy and diplomacy. Aphie is based off of antlion larvae, not so much aphids but it's a cute lil addition to her name. Special talent is using the sun to power technology! 💙 Princex Hercules Metalmark - Princex of Equestria. Heir to the Sun. Armorer. Has autism. Royal Alicorn-Changeling Hybrid (With Batpony/Heliacorn Attributes). 35 y/o. Agender (They/them and xey/xem mainly), Trixic. Likes puzzles/cipher cracking, keeping fit, fruit, fire, sappy movies, giving gifts and winter. Inspired by the Hercules Beetle and the Metalmark Butterfly! Special talent is crafting enchanted armor! 💙 Prince Joro Orb Weaver - Prince of Equestria. Heir to the Sun. Seamster at Carousel Boutique. Royal Alicorn-Changeling Hybrid (With Batpony/Heliacorn Attributes). 35 y/o. Transmasculine/Nonbinary (He/him, It/Its, She/her), Bi. Likes designing outfits, spoken word poetry, spiral patterns, fantasy shows/books, posters, journaling and social events. Inspired by the Joro Spider and the common Yellow Garden Spider/Orb-Weaver! Special talent is sewing outfits! 💙 Princex Tsetse Deathwatch "Click" Beetle - Princex of Equestria. Heir to the Sun. Nurse. Gravedigger. Mute. Has autism. Royal Alicorn-Changeling Hybrid (With Batpony/Heliacorn Attributes). 35 y/o. Genderfluid (They/them and it/its mainly), Omni. Likes history documentaries, playing the guitar, baggy clothes, cemeteries, volunteering, birds and brownies. It was initially named "Princex Malachite" and based off of the Malachite butterfly, but since I've changed its' name it doesn't really resemble what its' currently named after: the Tsetse Fly and Click/Deathwatch Beetles. Special talent is healing creatures! 💙 Princess Venusta Orchard Mason - Princess of Equestria. Heir to the Sun. Gardener. Builder. Farmer. Royal Alicorn-Changeling Hybrid (With Batpony/Heliacorn Attributes). 35 y/o. Transfeminine/Nonbinary (They/them and She/her), Aro/Sapphic. Likes worms, pottery, lemonade, architecture, foraging, climbing trees, falling leaves and making friends. She's mainly inspired by the strikingly blue Orchard Mason Bee, which I first saw around my early high school years iirc and fell in love with it. The other half, Venusta, comes from the Venusta Orchard Spider! The 'Venusta' part of their name actually wasn't initially there, but I thought it'd be a pretty edition, especially since the two bugs share the word 'orchard' in their names. Special talent is building strong structures! 💙 Prince Rosy Maple Brimstone - Prince of Equestria. Heir to the Sun. Influencer. Disc Jockey. Party Thrower. Royal Alicorn-Changeling Hybrid (With Batpony/Heliacorn Attributes). 35 y/o. Intersex (He/him), Ace/Queer. Likes hyperpop/house music, makeup, bright colors, flea markets/antique malls, soap carving, blogging and raves. Rosy is mainly based on the Rosy Maple Moth, but the other part of his name comes from the Brimstone Butterfly! Special talent is DJing and music production! 💙 Prince Atlas Adonis Blue - Prince of Equestria. Heir to the Sun. Drag Queen. Royal Alicorn-Changeling Hybrid (With Batpony/Heliacorn Attributes). 35 y/o. Demiboy (He/him and They/them), Gay. Likes singing, the stars, glowsticks, finance, karaoke, collecting mugs, clubbing, glitter and cleaning. Atlas is of course inspired by the Atlas Beetle and the Adonis Blue Butterfly! Special talent is performing!

[critter-creature-or-beast]

By Christina Butler from Georgia, United States - [Joro Spider - Trichonephila clavatamlqooppsulhq Lidl HK go ñ km.], CC BY 2.0

[disposablelimb]

i fixate on one of my fictomeres to the point that it's hard to connect with my other identities, and i kind of don't like that? it makes me self-doubt my other identities, even.

part of it is probably due to me having ADHD. part of it, though, is just that...the impact it has. it's not really that one is more important to me than the other, but my fictionkinity/fictivity is like a thorn in my side. it's painful and it grabs my attention. i have to prioritize it.

i don't think it was always like this, either. i remember being pretty enthusiastic about being spiderhearted at one time. when i can think about it, i like my brown bear linktype. i can't recall when exactly i developed these complicated feelings about myself, but i've gotten so numb and so obsessed it's hard to connect with anything else.

[bug-gender]

help me decide which scry I should dedicate my joro spider breeding project to!

he's meant to look like one of these guys:

[supraventriculart]

My favorite spider. Trichonephila Clavata. I photograph anytime I can

[yanban-san]

Isnt there a type of spider that uses their webs to catch air currents in order to fly and travel long distances?

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Emmet and uh oh the wind just turned. Help, he's over the lake now. There he goes. Goodbye Emmet.

That's the Joro Spider! I know because they're a recent invasive species here to the East Coast and they are verrry beautiful- They can make their silk golden colored!

I believe there's a few other spiders that can fly on their webs (Called Ballooning) but that's the one I know about because in addition to our normal massive amount of garden spiders and orb weavers we have in late Summer/Early Autumn, Joro Spiders have been showing up en masse... They're very beautiful.

Poor Ingo has to rescue his brother currently floating off over the lake; Though they can fly, swimming is another matter- Maybe that's how you befriend the poor waterlogged spider? Save him from his terrible fate, and he'll take you parasailing!

Spoilered: Image of a Joro Spider. They are large and verrry colorful!

Image desc: [An image of a Joro Spider sitting on a web. It's legs are long, thin, and black with yellow stripes. It's body is primarily vivid yellow with grey and black stripes and two large, bright red spots on the sides.]

[elizabeths-dumbassery]

love looking into references to write a family hierarchy for Big Mama and IT HAD TO BE THAT HER YOKAI IS BASED OF ORB WEAVERS. SPECIFICALLY THE JORO SPIDER.

NEXT THING I KNOW IM GONNA HAVE TO LOOK INTO THE FUCKING FIRE BREATHING SPIDERS FROM THE FOLKLORE

[sa7abnews]

The Joro spider is spreading in the US, but it's not the invasive species we have to worry about

New Post has been published on https://sa7ab.info/2024/08/16/the-joro-spider-is-spreading-in-the-us-but-its-not-the-invasive-species-we-have-to-worry-about/

The Joro spider is spreading in the US, but it's not the invasive species we have to worry about

A large, brightly colored invasive species called the Joro spider is on the move in the United States. Populations have been growing in parts of the South and East Coast for years, and many researchers think it’s only a matter of time before they spread to much of the continental U.S.But spider experts say we shouldn’t be too worried about them.”My sense is people like the weird and fantastic and potentially dangerous,” said David Nelsen, a professor of biology at Southern Adventist University who has studied the growing range of Joro spiders. “This is one of those things that sort of checks all the boxes for public hysteria.”LARGEST MALE SPECIMEN OF WORLD’S MOST VENOMOUS SPIDER DISCOVERED IN AUSTRALIAScientists instead worry about the growing prevalence of invasive species that can do damage to our crops and trees — a problem made worse by global trade and climate change, which is making local environmental conditions more comfortable for pests that previously couldn’t survive frigid winters.”I think this is one of those ‘canary in the coal mine’ type species where it’s showy, it’s getting a lot of attention,” said Hannah Burrack, professor and chair of the entomology department at Michigan State University. But the shy critter poses little risk to humans. Instead, Burrack said, introduced pests like fruit flies and tree borers can do more damage.”This is a global concern, because it makes all the things that we do in terms of conservation, in terms of agricultural production, in terms of human health, harder to manage,” she said.The Joro spider is one of a group of spiders called orb-weavers, named for their wheel-shaped webs. They’re native to East Asia, have bright yellow and black coloring and can grow as long as three inches when their legs are fully extended.However, they’re pretty hard to spot at this time of year because they’re still early in their life cycle, only about the size of a grain of rice. A trained eye can spot their softball-sized webs on a front porch, or their gossamer threads of golden silk blanketing the grass. Adults are most commonly seen in August and September.Scientists are still trying to figure that out, said David Coyle, an assistant professor at Clemson University who worked with Nelsen on a study on the Joro’s range, published last November. Their central population is primarily in Atlanta but expanding to the Carolinas and southeastern Tennessee. A satellite population has taken hold in Baltimore over the last two years, Coyle said.As for when the species will become more prevalent in the Northeast, an eventual outcome suggested by their research? “Maybe this year, maybe a decade, we really don’t know,” he said. “They’re probably not going to get that far in a single year. It’s going to take a bunch of incremental steps.”The babies can: using a tactic called “ballooning,” young Joro spiders can use their webs to harness the winds and electromagnetic currents of the Earth to travel relatively long distances. But you won’t see fully-grown Joro spiders taking flight.Joro spiders will eat whatever lands in their web, which mainly ends up being insects. That could mean they’ll compete with native spiders for food, but it might not all be bad — a Joro’s daily catch could also feed native bird species, something Andy Davis, a research scientist at the University of Georgia, has personally documented.As for some observers’ hope that Joro spiders could gobble up the invasive spotted lanternflies destroying trees on the East Coast? They might eat a few, but there’s “zero chance” they’ll make a dent in the population, Coyle said.Joro spiders have venom like all spiders, but they aren’t deadly or even medically relevant to humans, Nelsen said. At worst, a Joro bite might itch or cause an allergic reaction. But the shy creatures tend to stay out of humans’ way.What could one day truly cause damage to humans is the widespread introduction of other creatures like the emerald ash borer or a fruit fly called the spotted wing drosophila that threaten the natural resources we rely upon.”I try to stay scientifically objective about it. And that’s a way to protect myself from maybe the sadness of it. But there’s so much ecological damage being done all over the world for, for so many reasons, mostly because of humans,” Davis said. “This to me is just one more example of mankind’s influence on the environment.”

[wimdywhimsy]

i am so so SO excited for the joro spiders that i hope we'll get ive never seen an orb weaver before but theyre like one of my favorite little critters ever so im very very hype. im thinking abt making a terrarium to keep one in for a week or so to study its behaviors a little bit.

[palestineusa]

What are Joro spiders? The invasive species spreading in the US

The Joro spiders are sometimes called “parachuting” spiders because they can move by shooting out a long strand of silk that gets caught in the wind and carries them through the air. What are Joro spiders? The Joro — trichonephila clavata — is part of a group of spiders known as “orb weavers” for their highly organized, wheel-shaped webs. Common in Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan, Joro females have colorful yellow, blue and red markings on their bodies. They can measure 3 inches across when their legs are fully extended. Giant, feral goldfish wreaking havoc in Great Lakes The Joro appears better suited to colder temperatures than a related species, researchers at the University of Georgia said in a paper published last year. Are Joro spiders dangerous? According to scientists, the Joro spider only poses a threat to the things that get caught in its web. This can include butterflies, cockroaches, stink bugs and wasps but not humans. “We have no evidence that they’ve done any damage to a person or a pet,” Clemson assistant professor Dave Coyle said.

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[kindwarrior]

We already have the bigger cousin of the Joro Spider, the Golden Orb Weaver, living here in TX.

This 👆 is Interesting 🤔

[zu-is-here]

So, there used to be a Joro spider living below my water tank.

I never named it. Every morning I'll look out and see if it's still there, the thing doesn't move much, I could just grab it if I had wanted to. But I left it be, not because it was an orb weaver and I don't like eating orb weavers, I just didn't feel like bothering this one.

It makes pretty yellow webs.

One night, after a particularly bad storm, the spider and its web disappeared.

I guess I should be glad about it because they reproduce pretty fast, it'll be bad for my garden and one can only eat so many spiders before they get sick of them.

Hello again to you too... :')

[asterwild]

[Image: digital art of a spider, saying “Howdy, neighbor!” in a speech bubble. Its large abdomen is mostly yellow, with black and red markings, and its long legs are black with yellow stripes. One foreleg is lifted as if waving. End ID]

You may have seen some alarming headlines about giant venomous parachuting spiders invading the US and colonizing the east coast. While some of those things are technically correct, the phrasing is often sensationalist and misleading.

Jorō spiders (Trichonephila clavata) originated in East Asia and have been present in the southeast US for around a decade, predominately in Georgia.

Female Jorōs can reach an inch in body-length and are bright yellow, while males are smaller and brown. One of their close relatives, Golden silk orb-weavers (Trichonephila clavipes), are native to the Americas and are similar in size. The baby spiders are the ones who do the “ballooning” (releasing silk so they can be dispersed by wind), a fairly common behavior among spiders.

The venom these spiders produce is medically insignificant for humans. They're unlikely to bite in the first place, and aren’t always able to break human skin even if they try.

Recent studies indicate that Jorōs can survive in regions colder than where they’re currently established. So, it’s possible that populations will begin expanding northwards in the next several years. However not every non-native species is “invasive,” and the ecological impact of these spiders is currently unclear.

If you find a Jorō spider, take a moment to admire them! Even if they’re sometimes a nuisance or are eventually determined to be invasive, that doesn’t mean they’re evil. They're just little creatures, weaving their webs, munching on bugs, and looking great while doing it.

Sources:

Jorō Spiders | PennState Extension (2022)

New spiders in north Georgia are hard to miss but pose no threat | UGA Cooperative Extension (2018)

No, you don't need to worry about joro spiders. They may even be helpful in some ways | NPR (2022)

[downtroddendeity]

Also, while the Joro spiders are new in town, there's another species of golden orb weaver in the same genus (Trichonephila clavipes) that's a similar size, has similar habits, and is native to the Americas. The giant spiders have been here the whole time, but since the whole reason they're so big is because they make big webs that stretch between trees, they mostly live in the woods and mind their own business. I saw them a few times at summer camp when I was a kid, and my experience was that they're actually some of the least alarming spiders to encounter if you're easily startled by them, because they're so big and colorful that they're pretty easy to spot hanging out, and therefore easy to avoid. Even if joros do move into your area, you're almost certainly not going to be seeing them skittering across your bathroom floor in the middle of the night.

[onenicebugperday]

I don’t know if you answer questions like this but how environmentally destructive are the invasive joro spiders in the United States? I like them but I think they’re out-competing our native orb weavers.

I forget who the quote was from, but someone (state official? wildlife department rep? entomologist?) in Georgia said as far as invasive species go, the Joro spider is "not so bad." Scientists have not noticed a big impact on native species yet. But...only time will tell.

[bugsrfckdup]

Did you guys hear about this?

Excuse the clickbaity title but, the Joro spider, native to Korea, Taiwan, and China, could soon be coming to an American east coast city near (or far away from, i dont know where you live) you!

I live in Boston and everyone has been posting about this babe all day. Kinda excited to meet her, as i love the yellow orb weavers we already have around here.