{"id":17082,"date":"2026-05-13T08:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=17082"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:38:24","slug":"6-spotted-fishing-spider-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/6-spotted-fishing-spider-2\/","title":{"rendered":"6-spotted Fishing Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Howdy, BugFans,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2026:\u00a0<\/strong>Week two of our homage to wetlands.\u00a0Why wetlands?\u00a0Let me count the whys.\u00a0For starters, wetlands are fascinating communities that are full of animals that have devised unique ways to deal with the challenges of life underwater.\u00a0Wetlands both filter and sponge \u2013 removing chemicals from water systems and soaking up extra water to minimize flooding.\u00a0More &#8220;whys&#8221; next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2012:\u00a0<\/strong>This lovely spider is called the <strong>six-spotted fishing spider<\/strong> (<em>Dolomedes triton<\/em>), and yes, the BugLady is aware that there are more than six spots on the animal\u2019s abdomen, but the number refers to dark spots hidden on its underside.\u00a0The BugLady wrote a too-short episode about this critter 4 \u00bd years ago, but she has re-researched the SSFS and so is re-issuing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fishing Spiders are in the genus\u00a0<em>Dolomedes,<\/em>\u00a0in the Nursery web spider family, Pisauridae.\u00a0One source said that Dolomedes comes from a Greek word meaning\u00a0<em>wily<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>contriving<\/em>.\u00a0Triton was the son of Poseidon.\u00a0There are 100-plus members of the genus worldwide, and because of their habitat choices, they\u2019re also called wharf spiders, dock spiders, and raft spiders.\u00a0North America has nine of those species \u2013 four live in still water; four in streams, and one is found in trees. They are often mistaken for wolf spiders, to whom they are not-so-distantly related.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/05\/6-spttd-fishing-spdr14-3-300x215.webp\" alt=\"fishing spider on a wetland\" class=\"wp-image-17084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/05\/6-spttd-fishing-spdr14-3-300x215.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/05\/6-spttd-fishing-spdr14-3.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SSFSs are found in wetlands, especially wetlands bordered by lots of vegetation, and they\u2019ve developed multiple ways to get around within their habitats.\u00a0Although they do not spin webs to snare prey \u2013 non-web-spinners are often called \u201cwandering\u201d spiders &#8211; SSFSs do make silk for several other purposes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are \u201copportunistic\u201d carnivores that will eat just about anything that comes along.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hungry for fish?\u00a0An SSFS can dive underwater (as deep as seven inches) and can easily take a tiny fish; in fact, its strong legs allow it to capture prey that is larger than the spider itself (including small goldfish).\u00a0It\u2019s able to walk on submerged vegetation, and it may retreat underwater when alarmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fishing spider has \u201cbook lungs,\u201d alternating layers of air pockets and a blood-like substance.\u00a0Its body is covered with short, water-repellant hairs that hold an additional layer of silvery air against its body when the spider submerges.\u00a0With this \u201cair tank,\u201d it can stay submerged for more than thirty minutes, but all that air may make it so buoyant that it has to grab a plant or rock to keep from floating to the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignright uwm-c-img--right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/05\/6-spttd-fishing-spdr14-2-300x215.webp\" alt=\"fishing spider floating on a leaf on a wetland\" class=\"wp-image-17086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/05\/6-spttd-fishing-spdr14-2-300x215.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/05\/6-spttd-fishing-spdr14-2.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It frequently hunts at the water\u2019s surface, where its eight eyes allow it to locate nearby prey visually and where it may stay motionless for several hours waiting for food to appear. Like a water strider, an SSFS uses the sense of touch in its front legs to detect the struggles of insects that have swooped too low and become trapped in the water\u2019s sticky surface film, or that have emerged from their underwater larval stage and have floated to the surface.\u00a0It walks out to its prey, grabs it with hooked front feet, subdues it with venom, and eats it.\u00a0It eats the competition, too \u2013 other surface-feeders, especially water striders.\u00a0Some sources claim that an SSFS can distinguish between the vibration of a trapped leaf and that of an insect or of a lunging frog; others said they cannot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides walking, an SSFS can run across the water, row across it using several pairs of legs like oars; or glide, pushed by the wind like an iceboat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/05\/6-spttd-fishing-spdr17-2rz-300x300.webp\" alt=\"fishing spider on dry ground\" class=\"wp-image-17085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/05\/6-spttd-fishing-spdr17-2rz-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/05\/6-spttd-fishing-spdr17-2rz-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/05\/6-spttd-fishing-spdr17-2rz.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An SSFS is equally at home on dry ground &#8211; hunting along its shoreline, on leaves of shoreline plants, and on floating leaves in the water.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spiders in the air?\u00a0These spiders have been observed jumping up off the water\u2019s surface to snag prey (or to avoid becoming the prey of birds, fish, frogs, snakes, and dragonflies), and they can disperse by ballooning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/spider-flight-rerun\/\">Spider Flight Rerun \u2013 Field Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SSFSs, like many spiders, are sexually dimorphic; he is half her size.\u00a0When a young male\u2019s fancy turns to love, he proceeds with caution, because he is prey-sized and she needs protein to produce yolk for her eggs.\u00a0The signals are chemical, vibratory, and tactile.\u00a0He may follow her pheromone-laced silk dragline across the water, actually pulling himself along it (her scent is on the water, even without the dragline). When he finds her, he waves his legs and jerks, and then expresses his further ardor by leg-tapping.\u00a0These vibrations produce ripples that spread and reach her.\u00a0If she is receptive, she waves, drums her palps (structures near her mouth), and then they spar for a while.\u00a0His actions defuse her prey drive &#8211; somewhat.\u00a0If she does cannibalize him, it increases the chances that her egg sac will hatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experiments have been done to discover why she eats her mate.\u00a0Is it merely nutritional (called\u00a0<em>adaptive foraging<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 and she may eat him before he becomes a sperm donor) or is it the heat of the moment (<em>aggressive spillover<\/em>\u00a0or misplaced aggression)? The results are inconclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her eggs are placed in a silken case that she totes around with her. 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