Imagine, if you will, you are a fly. Out for a stroll when lo! A strong, sticky substance has you ensnared: a spider’s web, built by the eight-legged giant on its way to kill you. You ready yourself ...

Its name comes from the Jorogumo spider of Japanese folklore. It is a type of golden orb-weaver spider and spins its webs with a shiny golden silk. These webs are huge!

Orb weavers are harmless to humans, despite how much cleanup their web-making may require. A telephoto close-up of a golden silk orb weaver on its web seen at Brazos Bend State Park in Texas.

Orb weavers are one of many types of spiders, usually identified by their unique webs. Find out more about these creatures, including where you can find them and how to prevent them.

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Joro spiders can create large webs that can be up to 10 feet wide. A Nephila clavata, a type of orb weaver spider native to Japan where it is called joro-gumo or joro spider, waits in its web for ...

Joro spiders are named after a Japanese monster called a jorōgumo, a giant spider which can transform into a beautiful woman and trap people in its web. Females grow to be about 1.7-2.5cm in body ...

A Joro spider, left, and a golden orb weaver spider [AFP/Getty Images] A female Joro spider can have a span of 8cm to 20cm (3 to 8 inches) with its legs spread – bigger than the human hand.

Golden silk orb-weavers are big, scary-looking spiders that like to weave huge webs. If you live in Florida, you might have nearly run face-first into a few of these webs while doing yard work.

Golden silk orbweavers prefer to weave their webs in locations that are on a slight incline as opposed to a location that provides a more vertical set-up, which is common among orb-weaving spiders.