Cooperative Extension fact sheet cited in BDN article on freshwater creatures
The Bangor Daily News cited a University of Maine Cooperative Extension fact sheet in the article, “10 monsters that dwell in Maine’s waterways.” The article presented different freshwater creatures living in Maine that people might be unfamiliar with, including the fishing spider. The largest spider native to Maine, it hunts by walking over land and water to find insects and small fish. However, they are not aggressive toward humans and “they’d rather flee than fight,” according to the fact sheet.