Album of Naches Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 23 May 2025 spider collecting trip (with Kathy Whaley) to sites in and around Naches (pronounced na-cheese), Yakima County, Washington. We collected at two cemeteries (not especially productive), a sports park with natural riparian habitats, and a large tract of sagebrush shrub-steppe, for 37-38 species, in ideal weather.
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locations of Naches Cemetery and Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Yakima County, Washington Laurel Ramseyer in Naches Cemetery, Naches, Yakima County, Washington
Red dots mark first cemetery & sports park     (NAIP, 2023) Laurel in Naches Cemetery                  © Rod Crawford
spider Steatoda triangulosa, Naches Cemetery, Naches, Yakima County, Washington male spider Poecilochroa (Sergiolus) montana, Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington
Kathy's Steatoda triangulosa              © Rod Crawford Poecilochroa montana from park pine cones             © Rod Crawford
grass and riparian thicket, Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington willow thicket, Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington
Grassy field surrounds riparian grove       © Rod Crawford Riparian willow grove                 © Rod Crawford
male spider Theridion neomexicanum from Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington bank of side channel of Naches River, Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington
Kathy's Theridion neomexicanum          © Rod Crawford Side channel of Naches River                © Rod Crawford
cottonwood litter under grass, Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington female Tachygyna sp #2, Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington
Cottonwood litter under grass           © Rod Crawford Tachygyna that Rod sifted                  © Rod Crawford
Ponderosa pines, Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington marshy riparian ground, Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington
Ponderosa pines — with cones            © Laurel Ramseyer A marshy spot in the grassy fields               © Laurel Ramseyer
grassy path through trees, Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington lawns and buildings, Clemans View Sports Park, Naches, Washington
Grassy path through the trees         © Laurel Ramseyer Lawns and buildings               © Rod Crawford
Locations of Wenas sagebrush tract and cemetery, Yakima County, Washington Kathy Whaley at sagebrush tract on Naches-Wenas Road, Yakima County, Washington
Locations of sagebrush tract & Wenas Cemetery         (NAIP, 2023 Kathy between sagebrush and meadow                        © Laurel Ramseyer
sagebrush shrub, sagebrush tract on Naches-Wenas Road, Yakima County, Washington sagebrush tract on Naches-Wenas Road, Yakima County, Washington
Sagebrush shrub                   © Rod Crawford In the midst of the sagebrush tract               © Rod Crawford
Laurel starts up the road, sagebrush tract on Naches-Wenas Road, Yakima County, Washington Laurel's view of sagebrush tract on Naches-Wenas Road, Yakima County, Washington
"The bear went over the mountain…"   © Rod Crawford "…to see what she could see"                © Laurel Ramseyer
board on ground, sagebrush tract on Naches-Wenas Road, Yakima County, Washington Titanoeca nigrella, sagebrush tract on Naches-Wenas Road, Yakima County, Washington
Laurel turned over a board         © Laurel Ramseyer And found Titanoeca nigrella                     © Rod Crawford
rough dirt road, sagebrush tract on Naches-Wenas Road, Yakima County, Washington meadowy section of sagebrush tract on Naches-Wenas Road, Yakima County, Washington
The road got rough                    © Laurel Ramseyer Shrub-free plot in the steppe                        © Rod Crawford
Kathy Whaley entering Wenas Cemetery, Yakima County, Washington bison monument, Wenas Cemetery, Yakima County, Washington
Kathy enters Wenas Cemetery           © Rod Crawford Monument to "Black Dog" the bison                       © Rod Crawford
spider Theridion melanurum from Wenas Cemetery, Yakima County, Washington Kathy Whaley in Wenas Cemetery, Yakima County, Washington
Male Theridion melanurum               © Rod Crawford Kathy heading for the pine cones                      © Rod Crawford
butterfly Coenonympha tullia from sagebrush tract on Naches-Wenas Road, Yakima County, Washington sunset over Lake Washington and Seattle on 23 May 2025
Coenonympha tullia on Laurel's boot   © Laurel Ramseyer Sun sets as we arrive home                   © Rod Crawford

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