Meet the Joro spider, a vibrant orb-weaver native to Africa and parts of Asia that was first spotted in the United States in Georgia in 2022. Thanks to iNaturalist, not long after, there was an unlikely spotting in this Elkridge neighborhood. "The spider is like yellow and black in appearance and it has these silver stripes on its back. It makes a really large orb web, about like 18 inches in diameter, and the web has this really distinctive golden color to it, which is why its relatives and lik