Halloween Fright: The Unusual Sex Lives of Dark Fishing Spiders

Similar in size, shape and coloration to large wolf spider species, the lesser-known dark fishing spider would no doubt give anybody with arachnophobia a decent scare. Dark fishing spiders (Dolomedes tenebrosus), as you'd expect from their name, are nocturnal and live near water. "They're around, but you have to go look for them at night, with a headlight," said Steven Schwartz, a behavioral ecologist and fishing-spider researcher at Gonzaga University in Washington.

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