Japanese "harlot spiders" are colonizing the US.
I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW ARACHNID MISTRESSES!
https://www.wmur.com/article/asian-joro-spiders-invading-america/60066904
Your bees had better leave their six-foot-diameter webs alone.
@mcfate spiders get into the hives all the time. Strong colonies will drive them out, but the webs cause mayhem with bee's communication systems which are largely vibration based (as well as visual and pheromones). I'll check in and around my hives and report back!
Jōrō spiders don't "get into" anything at all. They stay on their gigantic webs.
For that matter, a three-inch-spider with four or five inch legs is going to be hard pressed to "get into" a bee hive.
I can assure you right now that no harlot spiders have "gotten into" any beehives. That's not how they operate.
@mcfate I hope so, but I've seen some weird things in my time. I'll be on the lookout around and under the hives (as I'm in NC). Did I miss in the article if they were poisonous? I saw their fangs were likely unable to penetrate human skin. Sidenote: we have black widow spiders in NC - that is not cool!
@bfgreen
You missed that their fangs cannot even penetrate human skin.
You can look for them all you want, but I promise, you'll never find one in a bee hive.