"They likely traveled across the globe on shipping containers, similar to the Bubonic plague."
Seems like an odd choice to compare a spider and the Bubonic plague. Wouldn't any number of invasive species have been better?
Seems like an odd choice to compare a spider and the Bubonic plague. Wouldn't any number of invasive species have been better?
So I think the plague reference was meant as another way to exaggerate the severity of the situation for humorous effect. That was my take anyway.
A spider the size of the palm of your hand sounds pretty terrifying to me no matter how harmless it is, but then I really don't like spiders of any size.
I'm booking a one way trip to the North Pole or wherever these flying spiders aren't.
Looks like we're both signing up for the first one-way trip to Mars.
Until one crawls across the windshield of your car whilst driving.
I'm glad I was the driver when it happened. I can still remember the screams of my then co-pilot, however. She definitely had arachnophobia.
By far the most successful invasive arthropod in the Nearctic is the European honeybee, but you never really hear anyone talk about the considerable ecological harm those do, for the obvious reason that their agricultural and thus economic utility is considered far to outweigh the externalities of their cultivation.