Joro spiders eat wider range of insects than Georgia’s native orb weavers

August 28, 2026 · 5:00 pm 1 sources

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• Joro spiders eat wider range of insects than Georgia's native orb weavers
  Phys.org · August 28, 2026 17:00
  When Joro spiders first arrived stateside more than a decade ago, scientists worried the massive black-and-yellow spiders would gorge themselves on the same bugs as native spiders (or even the native spiders themselves). If the invasive arachnids did make massive meals of Georgia's insects, the…