Please; no gratuitous analogies.
Giant 8in spiders from China are set to invade the US: Black and yellow critters seen parachuting through the air on the east coast – and will soon hit New York and New Jersey
Daily Mail | 12/06/23 | Matthew PhelanA venomous eight-inch-long spider native to Asia, whose palm-sized females cannibalize their male mates, is flying up America’s east coast and spreading out west.
Experts say the Jorō spider can fly 50 to 100 miles at a stretch, using their webbing as a parasail to glide in the wind, and it’s now also hitching rides up east coast highways – but the creatures aren’t known to pose a threat to humans or pets.
However, the jury is still out on the impact that this giant spider, which is believed to have first arrived in the US a decade ago via shipping containers arriving in Georgia, might have on local wildlife.
One thing that is certain, according to an ecologist at Rutgers University’s Lockwood Lab in New Jersey, who spoke with DailyMail.com: ‘Soon enough, possibly even next year, they should be in New Jersey and New York.’
‘Because their main methods of dispersal are to either ‘balloon’ with the wind, or hitch rides on cars,’ PhD student and ecologist José R. Ramírez-Garofalo told DailyMail.com, ‘they are generally going to spread to where the wind blows, or where humans are.’
Microscopic High IQ Spider Mites: “If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something – even though it’s just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.”
Maybe they can catch all the flies and maggots in DC.
Great… More balloons from China flying across America under Brandon’s watch.
Do hitchhiking spiders put out 8 thumbs?
No, that’s ridiculous. I’ve been around thousands of them in the oil fields and at home and all I’ve ever seen is just a few of them put out just one finger to me. Their middle finger.
But those weren’t Chinese.
It’s a lot harder for them to put phrases into their webs, because they only use hanzi…
“…females cannibalize their male mates…”
Some things are universal.
Most spiders are beneficial to humans but the ‘fear factor’ is not controllable in most people. I predict campaigns to eradicate them and counter-campaigns to leave them be.
Forget it Jake…it’s Chinatown spiders.