Invasive Joro spider spotted in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

were tracking flying spiders there are now reports of the so-called joro spider closer to home yeah Pennsylvania officials work going to confirm a reported sighting in Bucks County Action uses Maggie Kent live at the Academy of Natural Sciences to help us untangle this web of spider rumors Maggie yeah Brian Sarah the pictures look legitimate so the state is trying to confirm yes that there have been Juro sightings here in the bugs County area they are are yellow and black and they are massive and when they're tiny babies they can shoot a little web it can carry them through a gust of wind even miles so we're talking about potentially flying spiders in this area originally from Asia now people are saying they're starting to see them around here every September and October there's a new batch of sightings in in a new state and then everybody freaks out University of Georgia researcher Andy Davis gave us an up close and personal look at the yellow and black Juro spider they filled his backyard in the peach state They Don't Really attack people they don't they're not really as as scary as as what what you know what they what they look like originally from Asia the juros spider first arrived in Georgia about 10 years ago this species here seems to be really really good at hitchhiking on cars and so that's probably why you've got a sighting in Philadelphia right now here at home the Bucks County sighting have been reported to jat.com a tracking site Pennsylvania entomologists are working with the USDA to confirm these sightings we took a tour inside the Academy of Natural Sciences that gives you a little bit of the size of a J Spider even though this is not a J Spider but it's one of the related species Dr John gilhouse chair of the entomology department and drexal professor says the juros spider is known for Powers shooting so to speak they'll throw out a thread of silk that they produce and the wind catches that and so then they can disperse to a new part while they aren't harmful to humans people in Bucks County say they aren't exactly welcome either I was like um no you can take that back please we don't need that yeah a lot of people saying it's a giant note but honestly they do not harm you though they do create 10 foot web so just imagine walking through one of them it's interesting to say the least they're also very Hardy so they can last through the winters here in Pennsylvania and even further north north so something to look out for as officials are trying to uh verify these latest reported sightings we're live at the Academy of Natural Sciences Maggie Kent Channel 6 Action News Brian he's hiding Maggie it's okay to look now Maggie thank you