I have yet to see these here. What we do have in droves are Joro spiders.
I haven’t noticed too many of them running rampant this year. Though I certainly did have one jump on me yesterday.
Idk about other places but in Pittsburgh, they just dropped. I wonder if it was the constant freeze thaw cycles causing the decline here. . They were hatching in like November of 2023 but a lot of the adults were dying attached to trees when the temps dropped below freezing.
Never saw any before this year. I don’t get how they survive because they are the slowest, dumbest bugs I’ve ever seen. They just loudly splat onto the ground out of nowhere and flail about while I stomp them into a pulp.
Yup. Kids are jumpy alright. I expect to see a lot more of them this evening.
But why? This makes it taste better!
They probably taste awful if they’ve been feeding on Tree of Heaven.
Certainly more nutritious.
