They're huge and colorful, with bands of yellow and blue ... Now, they've been spotted in East Tennessee. Joro spiders, also known as Trichonephila clavata, were spotted in the Smokies on Oct.

There are some very colorful, large and invasive spiders in Tennessee. The Joro spider has been spotted up and down in communities along the East Coast since 2014 when the venomous (like nearly ...