Selected photos by Rod Crawford from my 4 May 2025 spider collecting trip with Sayna Parsi to two habitats along Beverly-Burke Road, southwestern Grant County, Washington. A typical, and rather sparse, shrub-steppe sample was made memorable by an excellent sift sample (with 6 uncommon to rare species out of 8 total) from litter of the non-native Eleagnus angustifolia. An 18-species total was easily supplemented on the following trip.

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Sites (red) on Beverly-Burke Road       (Grant County, 2023)	Russian olive tree, outlier of thicket                © Rod Crawford
Inconspicuous but rich thicket litter       © Rod Crawford	Argenna obesa from Russian olive litter              © Rod Crawford
Shaking tumbleweeds added 2 good species © Rod Crawford	But that same plant has ruined a wide tract of habitat         © Rod Crawford
Russian Olive foliage          © Rod Crawford	The Ebo evansae we sifted                  © Rod Crawford
Grassy understory of the grove          © Rod Crawford	The marsh across the road was too wet                © Rod Crawford
A more tree-like tree at the marsh edge   © Rod Crawford	The guardrail where my Phidippus got away         © Rod Crawford
Sayna at our second site              © Rod Crawford	Sweepable meadow-like tract              © Rod Crawford
Balsamroot plant                   © Rod Crawford	Male Misumenops lepidus                      © Rod Crawford
Scanning ground for active spiders failed     © Rod Crawford	Gate from federal into state land             © Rod Crawford
Wild flower               © Rod Crawford	I used this side gate and fence as a net stand               © Rod Crawford
Sagebrush foliage         © Rod Crawford	Sagebrush with a few spiders to beat           © Rod Crawford
Another sagebrush shrub            © Rod Crawford	Sun dipping behind a mountain                 © Rod Crawford

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