Joro overlords

In recent weeks, my home has been completely taken over by Joro spiders.  I'd never seen one before until a few weeks ago, and now they're everywhere.

I've been reluctant to knock down their webs, and I'll tell you why.  For one, they're a novelty in this part of the world, and I'm a curious cat.  For another, they spin yellow silk that shines like gold in the sunlight, and I think that's pretty cool.  Thirdly, they eat a bunch of insects.  The webs are littered with their trophies.  I think maybe the native insects don't "see" the webs as well as they see the webs of native spiders.  Whatever the reason, the Joros are absolutely slaughtering the bugs on an industrial scale, and that's a good thing.

The creepy part is that there's so many of them right next to the house.  The native spiders have never behaved like this.  It truly feels like an invasion, a conquest.  The Joros are our new overlords whether we like it or not.

Now if we could just teach them to eat yellow jackets...