Giant Joro Spiders to attack the East Coast

[muted reborn]

If those are the same spiders that live in the woods above Kyoto, spinning webs across all the trails, you guys are honestly fucked. I had to hike/run there with a stick held up high so I wouldn't go face-first into any of them.

The locals clear the lower webs out from constant daily travel on the trails but I'm a bit taller than 99% of them so yeah, I had a stick working for me and they may be harmless but if they take over the woods it will be miserable. They were every 50-200 feet with big fucking webs at head height on all the ridge line trails. Not cool. And biking on 29ers, as a tall guy, puts you even higher up and at speed you are not gonna see them in time.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

As if people needed yet another reason to leave the Ice Coast. 9000% humidity in the summer, and now flying giant spiders? That's a no for me dawg.

[Benny Profane]

Well, it does rain here.

[riser4]

I am used to carrying a spider stick in tall grass and weeds. I grew up in VT and the hayfields are infested with spiders. And some of them hurt like a mother fucker if they bite you. Plus the barn was full of them. Lots of plinking opportunities with the bb gun. Now I need a stick for the woods???

[BmillsSkier]

As if people needed yet another reason to leave the Ice Coast. 9000% humidity in the summer, and now flying giant spiders? That's a no for me dawg.

Not much ice in GA outside the mountains, but let us know if you need any water.

[Timberridge]

If those are the same spiders that live in the woods above Kyoto, spinning webs across all the trails, you guys are honestly fucked. I had to hike/run there with a stick held up high so I wouldn't go face-first into any of them.

The locals clear the lower webs out from constant daily travel on the trails but I'm a bit taller than 99% of them so yeah, I had a stick working for me and they may be harmless but if they take over the woods it will be miserable. They were every 50-200 feet with big fucking webs at head height on all the ridge line trails. Not cool. And biking on 29ers, as a tall guy, puts you even higher up and at speed you are not gonna see them in time.

Well, this isn't good news. Between the deer ticks and the giant Joro spiders, I may switch back to road bikes.

[Jong Lafitte]

I am used to carrying a spider stick in tall grass and weeds. I grew up in VT and the hayfields are infested with spiders. And some of them hurt like a mother fucker if they bite you. Plus the barn was full of them. Lots of plinking opportunities with the bb gun. Now I need a stick for the woods???

They get these fuckers near me I might be loading my ‘spider stick’ up with some high brass dove rounds.


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[Peruvian]

Maybe they will eat the Emerald Ash Borer.

[Mazderati]

8 oz bear spray. 18 oz spider spray.

[BmillsSkier]

Well, this isn't good news. Between the deer ticks and the giant Joro spiders, I may switch back to road bikes.

What size wheels?

[Benny Profane]

We are above such petty arguments.

[BmillsSkier]

We are above such petty arguments.

If not a hearty discussion on wheel size, how about a hearty discussion on the spider's affinity for soup?

[Benny Profane]

How about, much like the upstate question, what exactly are they calling the "east coast" when warning about these little buggers?

[muted reborn]

How about, much like the upstate question, what exactly are they calling the "east coast" when warning about these little buggers?

it guesses where in the article.


here's my Joro pic from Kyoto - there's like 7 of them in one picture. not sure if they are all Joro spiders but I think they were. If I'm wrong, well, nevermind. Wrong spider.

[BmillsSkier]

The I-95 corridor. Shore to 200 miles west of it.

Fight me.

[Benny Profane]

95 goes from Miami to Canada. That's like saying upstate is everything from Peekskill north.

[BmillsSkier]

Sounds to me like I just nailed down the "east coast".

Next?

[riser4]

I just drove i-95 from Fairfield, ME to the Canadian border, and back and thankfully I did not see any giant spiders.

[Jong Lafitte]

Get back Joro.

[bennymac]

The thru hikers on the AT are gonna need years of therapy

[irul&ublo]

Get back Joro.

Heh

[BmillsSkier]

The thru hikers on the AT are gonna need years of therapy

I’ll be up on the trail Sunday and be sure to bring ample Joro fighting implements and what have you.

[abraham]

I think they're afraid of liquor.

[evdog]

The thru hikers on the AT are gonna need years of therapy

They'll all just go hit the PCT as therapy and to "find themselves".

[rideit]

They'll all just go hit the PCT as therapy and to "find themselves".

I think I found my calling…being an Ayuhuasca Shaman in the lean-to’s of the AT…