PENOBSCOT BAY PILOT • October 19, 2020
The Maine Forest Service recently published its Checklist of Maine Spiders. The spider checklist marks the culmination of a 14-year collaboration between the late Maine spider expert Dr. Daniel T. Jennings and the MFS, as well as retired Forest Entomologist Charlene Donahue, and Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Seventy-one thousand individual spiders were collected, cataloged, and identified by Jennings. He identified 677 different kinds of spiders found in Maine.