The exact number of spider species that live in Maine isn’t known. In a 2007 study, two Maine spider experts — Frank Graham Jr. and Daniel T. Jennings — collected more than 300 different species of spiders from various habitats in Milbridge, a small coastal town in eastern Maine. And in 2012, a study found 145 species of spiders on and around Mount Katahdin, Maine’s tallest mountain, including five “new†species.
On a smaller scale, a few years ago, researchers found 39 species of spiders inhabiting the ferns that border the Orono Bog Boardwalk.
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