Giant, flying Joro spiders are heading northward. The question isn't if they're coming to the NYC area -- it's when: 'These things are the stuff of your nightmares.'
Giant, flying Joro spiders, native to East Asia, are moving northward across the East Coast, including NYC .The question isn't if they're coming to the NYC area -- it's when.JUMP TO: SIZE l ORIGIN l MAP"If you're an arachnophobe, these things are the stuff of your nightmares," Andy Davis, an ecologist with the University of Georgia, told FOX 5 NY. "They're so big, they're so striking, and they're so scary-looking.
"Cargo shipments, international trade, or personal travel could have facilitated their journey across the ocean."The Joro, when full-grown, is the size of a human palm."Their webs are absolutely enormous," Andy Davis, an ecologist at the University of Georgia, said. "They are at least three or four feet in diameter, and the other thing is they're really, really strong. If you walk into one, it'll stop you.
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