Joro spider photos: Get up close and personal as they trek north
Joro spiders can lay up to 500 eggs in a single sac and can parachute themselves "tens to hundreds of miles" away through the sky. These photos show where they've landed so far.
Li Cohen is a senior social media producer for CBS News. Li graduated from Nova Southeastern University in South Florida in 2017 with a degree in communication and media studies before getting her master's degree in journalism at NYU in 2019.
Li started her career in South Florida at The Seminole Tribune, a newspaper run by The Seminole Tribe of Florida, where she reported on local and national tribal issues and events while also serving as copy editor. Before joining CBS News, where she primarily covers environmental and social justice issues and produces documentaries, she covered local news at amNewYork. She has won awards for her environmental, news and coverage of Native issues, been a nominee for The Webby Awards and has won an Anthem Award for the CBS News climate change-focused Instagram page, @CBSNewsPlanet.
Joro spiders can lay up to 500 eggs in a single sac and can parachute themselves "tens to hundreds of miles" away through the sky. These photos show where they've landed so far.
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