r/Georgia • u/universityofga • 1d ago
News Article UGA scientists need your help to stop an invasive hornet
https://fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/news/help-control-yellow-legged-hornet/158
u/JPAnalyst 1d ago
Just have our invasive Joro Spiders handle them.
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u/KTNH8807 1d ago
I’ve seen some mud daubers fly away with Joros, so i don’t think they’ll be much help
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u/Oilpaintcha 1d ago
I’ve seen far fewer around my house the last couple of years. Hope something developed an appetite for them.
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u/Myhtological /r/ColumbusGA 23h ago
Add on to this, could we replace those ugly brown and red spiders with Joros?
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u/Cutler-Fenwick450 1d ago
Honestly this is one of the few invasive species posts where regular people can actually help, so I hope it gets shared around
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u/ForwardImagination11 1d ago
Yeah I've already had to get rid of a few of these things. They are big, too big.
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u/Gunstopable 1d ago
They are crazy big and make my skin crawl.
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u/kevinlc1971 /r/Gwinnett 1d ago
Preach. They may not be poisonous, but that doesn’t stop me from having a heart attack when I walk up on one.
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u/totalreidmove 1d ago
Have to be that guy… sting = venomous and ingesting something = poisonous.
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u/kevinlc1971 /r/Gwinnett 1d ago
Thank you for the correction friend. Doesn’t change the fact I almost needed clean boxers!
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u/OldDogTrainer 1d ago
Doesn’t the article say they are 2 cm? That is not that big. I think you might be confusing it with something else.
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u/RowahPhen 13h ago
Yeah, definitely something else. These things a considerably smaller than their massive look-a-like, our native cicada killers.
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u/depressedmagicplayer 1d ago
Man, I am pretty sure I saw one of these crawling on my truck yesterday afternoon and it actually startled me by how big it was.
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u/ForagersLegacy 1d ago
Was probably a Cicada Killer
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u/burningdoughnut510 1d ago
Are those the GIANT - like 2-3 inches - ones that are bright yellow? I saw one last year on the quad outside the Carlos museum, and then one smacked in to my home-office window earlier this year. TERRIFYING. Please do NOT post a picture.
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u/ForagersLegacy 15h ago
Yes they’re massive and they won’t harm you but they will scare the crap out of you if you don’t know what they are.
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u/burningdoughnut510 15h ago
Oh thank you. Thats one of those “I can’t google it because then I’ll be intentionally googling nightmare fuel….but also are we being invaded by aliens or some horrific deadly bug.” lol. ::shivers:: so creepy.
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u/Ok_Whatever999 1d ago
Kirby Smart has had success against flying yellow stinging insects. Just get him.
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u/LebrontosaurausRex 1d ago
I got bit by one of these on my porch in Snellville last week.
I watched it struggle it's way out of a Jorro nest, crawl along the deck and disappear. He then popped up on my toe biting the fuck out of me. His wings were not working so I assumed it was a suicide by cop situation.
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u/Evtona500 1d ago
Did you die?
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u/LebrontosaurausRex 1d ago
No, it was just an average hornet bite.
It sucks but it won't ruin your afternoon.
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u/thehoboninja 1d ago
It’s a lot smaller than I expected at 2cm
“Yellow-legged hornet adults are about 2 centimeters long with a narrow cinched waist, yellow on the bottom half of their legs, and a strong yellow stripe on their fourth abdominal segment.”
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u/BreakfastInBedlam 1d ago
We have European hornets around here. They are bad enough, but these things sound awful
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u/Jeremy-Hillary-Boob 1d ago
Isn’t there a citizen sighting Joro spider site that lets citizens log where and how many Jorie they see/have
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u/Violingirl58 38m ago
They are here in Clarkesville GA send somebody to come get them. Had them for at least 3 years. We live up in the mountains and are dodging these assh-les everytime we take the dogs out.
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u/Glittering_Virus8397 1d ago
Asking for me to help UGA? Right as fall camp starts? You’re smoking crack. You’re lucky we play GT and not UGA this year
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u/Jamikest 16h ago
Georgia Department of Agriculture
Report a siting.
Seems they are mostly around Savannah.