A joro spider in Boston. Photo: Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald
"A lot of people want to vilify these things because they look terrifying. To be fair, it's a giant spider, and it's a giant web, and if you're an arachnophobe, this is the stuff of your nightmares. But really, they are shy... The only option left to us is to learn how to live with them."
— Andy Davis, a UGA research scientist, telling the AJC what the public can do about joro spiders, the invasive arachnids taking over backyards and parks in Georgia.
