But he was a fun dude. After I left, I learned they were having a baby and wondered how he'd work the word "Roach" into it I mean, he couldn't call it Cok Roach...
Dang. 
The joro spider is unusually large, about the size of a Post-it note. It moves through life on long, tentaclelike legs. It is hair-raising if you do not like spiders.
And it is “only a matter of time” before joro spiders make their way to New York, said Andy Davis, a research scientist at the University of Georgia.
But there might be an upside to the impending arrival of the joro, originally from Asia. It eats spotted lanternflies, the invasive pest that officials have said New Yorkers should kill on sight.
Joro spiders were first seen in the United States about 10 years ago, in Georgia. They have since spread to Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and sightings have also been reported in Maryland and West Virginia, according to iNaturalist, an online network of people sharing information about nature. Davis said it made sense for the spiders to head north, because the Mid-Atlantic region is at about the same latitude as places in Asia where they are widespread.
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