Album of Bozy Creek Field Trip

Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to a second-growth riparian forest on Bozy Creek in the Black Hills southwest of Olympia, Washington on 11 May 2007 with Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford. Photos by both, as credited. A wonderfully peaceful spot that we'd recommend to anyone for a refreshing, renewing stroll in the woods. The spider fauna wasn't outstanding but was rich enough to justify the visit.
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aerial photo (1990), Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington roadside alder grove Alnus rubra, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Our site from the air in 1990 (USGS) No one passed our roadside parking spot all day     © Rod Crawford
hrizontal web of Tetragnatha versicolor Tetragnathidae orbweaver, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Tetragnatha versicolor web      © Laurel Ramseyer Looking upstream from the road             © Rod Crawford
Celastrina argiolus spring azure blue Lycaenidae butterfly, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington roadside salal and western hemlock, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Celastrina argiolus on boot      © Laurel Ramseyer Roadside foliage        © Rod Crawford
Misumena vatia Thomisidae male crab spider ballooning, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington Misumena vatia male crab spider Thomisidae on flower, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Misumena vatia male tries to take off from Rod's finger       © Laurel Ramseyer A different male M. vatia poses on a roadide flower
© Laurel Ramseyer
Metellina curtisi female orbweaver Tetragnathidae on salmonberry, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington Spiraea douglassi marsh, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Metellina curtisi on salmonberry  © Laurel Ramseyer Small Spiraea marsh by stream            © Rod Crawford
Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington riparian forest understory, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Edge of stream       © Laurel Ramseyer Understory at edge of wetland         © Rod Crawford
muscid fly Mesembrina sp., Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington skunk cabbage Lysichiton americanum in understory, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Colorful Mesembrina muscid fly    © L. Ramseyer Skunk cabbage in understory      © Laurel Ramseyer
Neriene digna web sheetweb Linyphiidae, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington forest understory, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Neriene digna web        © Laurel Ramseyer Forest understory farther from stream      © Rod Crawford
Ethobuella tuonops female Agelenidae Hahniidae from moss, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington pseudoscorpion Neobisiidae, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Ethobuella tuonops from moss      © Rod Crawford Neobisiid pseudoscorpion on sifting cloth  © Laurel Ramseyer
arboreal moss, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington arboreal moss, Bozy Creek, Black Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Big clump of moss     © Laurel Ramseyer Moss on dead and living limbs              © Rod Crawford

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