Rick said he got a strange call from a person asking him to look at a spider. The collection manager at the Georgia Museum of Natural History had no idea the species would become famous in his home state and beyond. The Joro spider is the newest species of spider in the eastern part of the U.S., with experts anticipating they will continue to spread throughout the region. According to a news release from the University of Georgia, the spider is as big as your palm. It's enough to make any arachnophobe's skin crawl, but the spindly creature might offer some environmental benefits. The Joro spider inspired a project to identify the strange species and track where it came from in the first place. The spider may have been brought to the states in a shipping container that was dropped off along I 85 in Georgia. Since it was dropped off, the population has started to boom, prompting hundreds of emails from people on how to eradicate them. The webs of the Joro spider are intimidating. A UGA entomologist has a backyard in Winterville that is perfect for spider research. Will Hudson's home is covered in huge Joro spider webs, which are ten feet deep on his porch. Hudson told UGA that last year there were dozens of spiders, and they began to be something of a nuisance when he was doing yard work. Hudson has to push back on the swelling population at his home by raking up their webs and spraying aerosol product on them because he enjoys the beauty of the spiders. I know. He told UGA that they are gorgeous spiders. According to National Geographic, the Joro spider's fangs are so small that they might not break human skin. Scientists haven't seen any effects on native wildlife from the spider. There may be a silver lining to the thick webs and constant tide of Joro spiders in Georgia. The new local could offer good pest control against different bugs that interfere with people's lives and the environment. She told UGA that she is trying to convince people that having large spiders and their webs around is a good thing. Stink bugs are bad for crops and the UGA hopes the Joro spiders can help limit them. The spiders should be easy to avoid if you don't camp on your front porch. As the population dies, the swaths of webs and spiders inside them will fall away. The female spiders will leave a sac of eggs before they die. The silk parachutes will spread the eggs across the eastern part of the U.S. There have been reports of the Joro spider in Georgia, as well as parts of Tennessee and the Western Carolinas. Hudson told the UGA that citizens should learn how to coexist with the creatures and find ways to manage their population. He suggests that females be eradicated in order to limit egg production. The Department of Entomology in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences has information about the Joro spider invasion. Would you like your dog to live longer? 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