Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to a natural gravelly prairie remnant south of Ford Prairie, west of Oakville, Washington on 20 June 2007 with Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford. Photos by both, as credited. Discovered earlier this year by Scarab Pyle, this site proved to have a wide array of prairie-limited spider species. The place doesn't really have a name of its own and I'd thought of calling it Pyle's Prairie, but it turns out to be only a mile or so south of the area called Ford Prairie on maps. Confusingly, there's also a completely different Ford's Prairie in Lewis County. Photos from the prairie remnant proper are on this page; click here for part 2 documenting our collections in oak woodland and other nearby habitats.

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Pitfall trap in place        © Rod Crawford	Daisy-rich part of the prairie           © Rod Crawford
Violet, Viola adunca     © Laurel Ramseyer	Side of the little grassland valley             © Rod Crawford
Vespid wasp      © Laurel Ramseyer	Looking back toward road (note oak grove)        © Rod Crawford
Unidentified flower       © Laurel Ramseyer	Meadow surface            © Rod Crawford
Phidippus clarus male  © Rod Crawford	Rod visible in distance, sweeping         © Laurel Ramseyer
Metepeira grandiosa female       © Rod Crawford	Laurel sorting through a beat sample       © Rod Crawford
Dark form of Pardosa distincta     © Rod Crawford	Female, male Pardosa ramulosa         © Rod Crawford

This page last updated 29 June, 2007