'They are docile, non-threatening, and actually very polite'
"Having worked with several [of this type of] species personally, I can tell you first hand that they are docile, non-threatening, and actually very polite,". "The worst that’s likely to happen to you is you walk into a web you didn’t see in time and really, whose fault is that?"
"Yes, their range is expanding, but there are already very similar spiders present in these areas anyway,", adding that "the big ones don’t float about and land on people at random" and, most importantly, even though they do have some venom in their small fangs , "they're not dangerous." Francis isn't the only expert working to dispel fearmongering about these relatively normal spiders. In, Andy Davis, one of the researchers behind the study that introduced everyone to the spiders, said that the critter — which, remember, has been in Georgia for nearly a decade now — doesn't seem to harm the ecosystems of the areas it invades, and can actually provide an important food source for birds and other predators.
"People should try to learn to live with them," he told the site. "If they’re literally in your way, I can see taking a web down and moving them to the side, but they’re just going to be back next year.” Meanwhile, on Twitter, journalists and spider enthusiasts alike are pushing back on the sky-is-falling tone of the Joro reporting — and, in some cases, poking fun at the spider-loving backlash as well. Here are some of our favs:i wish it wasn’t socially acceptable to print baseless scary stories about arthropods but in the grand scheme of journalistic malpractice, it’s low on the list. better than copaganda and war mongering i guess.
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