invasion of giant venomous joro-spiders 🕷️

[Ja Hu]

Do you have a pet smart or other pet store near you? I raise my own mealworms for my spiders and buy some crickets from the local pet stores as supplement.
You could get a few crickets and launch them at her web.

Thanks, that is what we will try.

 

[The Snark]

Sadly, Nephila keeping is a dead end street. Their most common food is moths but you can try anything and see if it takes it.
Regardless, after a certain period of time the female will abandon the web, lay eggs on the ground, or a sac without eggs, or even an phantom sac, then she dies. Building and maintaining their web burns the female out.

 

[Ja Hu]

Sadly, Nephila keeping is a dead end street. Their most common food is moths but you can try anything and see if it takes it.
Regardless, after a certain period of time the female will abandon the web, lay eggs on the ground, or a sac without eggs, or even an phantom sac, then she dies. Building and maintaining their web burns the female out.

Thanks much for reply. At least now we will know what happened when she disappears. My wife will probably freak out when that happens.

 

[Ja Hu]

Along Came a Spider by University of Georgia

Joro Spiders are taking over the east coast. UGA researchers explain how they got here, whether they are poisonous, and where they will spread next.

universityofgeorgia.exposure.co

“Humans are at the root of their invasion,” Frick says. “Don’t blame the Joro spider.”
Considering what is happening to the planet and the most invasive species.....

She's eating great little crickets hard to get m to stay in her web which is not very robust at this point. Not how she made it this far into the winter maybe just a late bloomer. For every three crickets I get in her web about 10 get away under the porch. We got tiny roaches for her too not a chance in the world that I'm going to let those guys loose on the back porch.