A venomous eight-inch-long spider native to , whose palm-sized females cannibalize their male mates, is flying up America's east coast and spreading out west.Experts say the Jorō spider can fly 50 to 100 miles at a stretch, using their webbing as a parasail to glide in the wind, and it's now also hitching rides up east coast highways — but the creatures aren't known to pose a threat to humans or pets.However, the jury is still out on the impact that this giant spider, which is believed to have first arrived in the US a decade ago via shipping containers arriving in Georgia, might have on local wildlife.
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