Arachnofluff
Arachnopeon
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- Jun 19, 2022
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Beautiful!Joro Spider (I think, North GA) starting to make a web across a sidewalk! I don't think I've ever seen as dramatic a spider in the wild as this one. I grabbed the anchoring lines and moved them to the nearby tree so someone didn't come along and freak out or try to kill it.
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I know, right? I was so surprised to see her just hanging out. Glad I was able to capture with just my phone camera, hahaBeautiful!
Oh that's fascinating. Do you know of any formal or informal publications about that? I'd be interested in reading more about itDelightful!
But this has left us, the humans, with a quandary. The biotope is in a state of flux and is adjusting. An ongoing enigma.
I've been involved in a casual survery (Entomologists at North Chiang Mai University) of Clavata for several years now and all evidence is pointing to a reduction in population in their adopted now native habitat in Asia. What factors are in play causing the reduction are purely speculation. Then at the same time their numbers are growing in an entirely alien environment as in Georgia US - well outside their native tropics.
The confusion is added to by the being discounted assumption the species was unlikely to be cosmopolitan, now apparently proven wrong. The new conclusion now being investigated is they never were a tropical species and are an invasive in most of SE Asia.
None that I know of but I haven't searched recently. The only entity, IMHO, that has the world wide scope to undertake an all encompassing look at this phenomenon would be Senckenberg https://www.senckenberg.de/en/ and they are, as always, up to their eyeballs in other projects.Do you know of any formal or informal publications about that?