Back in the summer, I read a small article online about an invasive spider that came from the far east, either Japan or the Koreas. It showed up in Atlanta and had moved into the upstate of South Carolina and the mountains of North Carolina. It’s called a JORO spider.
Personally, I don’t care for spiders and I thought, “I hope they don’t show up here, we have enough the way it is.” Well, this week I saw the spider in the picture below. Sent the photo to an entomologist at UNCC. She wrote back and said sure enough it’s a JORO spider.
You know, it probably hasn’t shown up in any other town in the Piedmont except Lincolnton and I just wonder how the hell it got here. Just guessing some of the guys from here were up in the mountains on the weekend, one of them sees it, tells the other ones about it, and somebody came up with the bright idea of. “Let’s take it to Lincolnton, It’ll be one of us. “
Pardon my bias, but to me, we have the most tolerant, forgiving and generous people on earth; but sometimes that seems to go too far. What I just said sounds off the wall, but it probably happened like that. On the way back here, one of them probably said “put it up on the dash and let it walk around and then we’ll take it to a bar.
For instance, three fellers I know well and are some of the best people, were boating down at Lake Norman. They get out in the middle of a channel and a deer was swimming across the lake ( wonder who taught him how to swim). These guys see it, pull their boat up to it and decide to give it a ride to the other side. They grab this large deer’s rack, and get its front legs in the boat. The deer goes crazy and nearly turns the boat over- they have to use a paddle to knock it back out of the boat. They honestly meant well.
Anyway, this - - - - - - - spider has attached itself to the side of my house. The professor at UNCC said the spiders venom is harmless to people, but it sure looks scary. Please see picture below.
sorry for the digression, just wanted to say something about it. And since Cheerduck and the Maiden posters were on here I knew I might have a sympathetic ear to vent to.
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