A fishing spider stands on a stack of newspapers after being found in an attic Friday. Fishing spiders get their name because instead of spinning webs to hunt for prey, they chill by the water’s edge and wait for ripples letting them know a bug has landed on the water. They are covered with hydrophobic hairs, which allow them to use surface tension to run out on the water and grab their prey with hooked front legs before injecting them with venom. These spiders are actually able to breath underwater, too. By trapping a pocket of air in the hair of their abdomen they can breath though their abdominal lungs and stay submerged underwater. Since their hairs trap water in a filmy layer around them, they always float. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)