Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia
I&#x27;m of course happy to know they&#x27;re harmless and (as far as we can tell) not horribly dangerous for the ecosystem, but speaking as someone who<p>A) has arachnophobia and a general fear of insects, and<p>B) lives completely alone and can&#x27;t get someone else to deal with stuff like this for me,<p>would someone who lives in Georgia be willing to confirm to me whether or not they come into houses, and how serious of a game plan I need to make for dealing with them?<p>I deal with house centipedes&#x2F;crickets[0] with Raid and then scooping up the body after they&#x27;re dead. Setting up bug barriers, keeping things clean, and keeping down any other insect populations that they&#x27;d feed on seems to deal with most everything else. Tiny bugs like boxelder bugs show up rarely, and are small enough that I can squish them without much trouble, but anything bigger than an inch is tough to deal with.<p>So if I&#x27;m likely to find one of these on my wall in my living room (even just occasionally), I legitimately need to plan ahead and figure out a one-person strategy for killing&#x2F;moving them out of my house in a way that it isn&#x27;t traumatizing, and if conventional bug barriers don&#x27;t work to keep them out then I need to figure out something else for reducing the likelihood of them coming in the house.<p>If they&#x27;re just outside, that&#x27;s not so much of a problem, big bugs are fine outside, although it&#x27;ll likely put a bit of a damper on my willingness to go hiking in wood trails given people&#x27;s descriptions of the webs.<p>----<p>[0]: Yes, I know house centipedes are positive predators to have around and shouldn&#x27;t be treated as pests, but I need to be able to walk into my bathroom without worrying I&#x27;ll find one on the wall.