Large, yellow spiders not native to the United States have been spotted just south of North Carolina. The joro spider is native to Korea, Taiwan and China. But in 2013 scientists found it living ...

Even if you're not a full-blown arachnophobe, your reaction to spotting a spider skittering across ... Matt Bertone and his colleagues at North Carolina State University surveyed 50 North Carolina ...

Large, yellow spiders not native to the United States have been spotted just south of North Carolina. The joro spider is native to Korea, Taiwan and China. But in 2013 scientists found it living ...

First documented in Georgia in 2013, Joro spiders have now been reported in South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, and Virginia. New sightings are popping up in Maryland, West ...

Similar to tarantulas, the Carolina wolf spider will dig an underground burrow for their habitat rather than spin a web like most spiders. Unlike most spiders that catch their prey in webs ...

The Joro spider’s relative, the golden silk spider, inhabits much of the Southeast and hasn’t migrated north because of the colder temperatures. The golden silk spider has been in the U.S. for ...

Since then, the spiders − which can grow up to 4 inches in length − have spread to states including Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, according to researchers at the ...

Similar to tarantulas, the Carolina wolf spider will dig an underground burrow for their habitat rather than spin a web like most spiders. Unlike most spiders that catch their prey in webs ...

Joro spiders, also known as Trichonephila clavata, were spotted in the Smokies on Oct. 17, according to Smokies Life. The spiders are native to Asia but were initially found in Georgia around 2013 ...

As of October 2022, the Joro spider's range spanned across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. There were also reports of the species in Alabama, Maryland, Oklahoma and West ...

Most web spiders do some form of ballooning, but the Joro spider will leave from an elevated spot. If its silk gets long enough, winds can carry it 100 miles or more. How big is the Joro spider?

The Carolina wolf spider (Hogna carolinensis) is the Palmetto State’s selected spider species representative and is the largest species of wolf spider in North America. It is also one of the ...