Nature wants to make your life miserable this spring.
Omicron has faded and face masks are coming off. So it’s clearly time for some new plagues to hit the Washington area. Here are some top possibilities for nature to make your life miserable as spring awakens our region from its winter doldrums:Joro spiders came to Georgia from Japan, likely via shipping containers,.
Joros can also use their silks to carry them across the wind to new locations, a behavior called ballooning. It’s part of the reason why Joros were able to spread so rapidly across the state of Georgia. When hatchlings emerged in the spring, they’d ride along to someplace new. Their offspring did the same the next year.easily make their way up to the Washington, DC, area
, Axios reports: “It looks like the Joro could probably survive throughout most of the Eastern Seaboard here, which is pretty sobering,” UGA’s Andy Davis told Karri Peifer. Also sobering: A spider the length of a toilet-paper roll swan-diving onto your head.Tree pollen is already at very high concentration in the region, according to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology’s National Allergy Bureau.
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