Album of Stone Quarry Canyon Field Trip
Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to Stone
Quarry Canyon, Kittitas County, Washington on 16 April 2007 with Laurel Ramseyer
and Rod Crawford. Photos by both, as credited.
A very secluded spot with nice habitats, good fauna, and a very unusual isolated
grove of Douglas maple which I'd previously spotted on aerial photos. The location
itself is on State land but is largely surrounded by lands of the Mellergaard
ranch; many thanks to the Mellergaards for not objecting to passers-through!
READ TRIP NARRATIVE | PHOTO ALBUM INDEX | MAIN JOURNAL INDEX |
Our site in a 2000 aerial photo (USGS) | Looking down from head of canyon © Rod Crawford |
Laurel's first time in eastern Wash. © Rod Crawford | Rod ready to collect; note rubble beds on slopes © L. Ramseyer |
Tachinid fly © Laurel Ramseyer | Isolated clump of Douglas maple © Laurel Ramseyer |
When in doubt about a bare tree, look at the leaf litter © Laurel Ramseyer | Inside the maple thicket © Rod Crawford |
Elk scat © Laurel Ramseyer | Cattle-watering pool © Rod Crawford |
Laurel says she turned over every rock on this hillside © Rod Crawford | In steppe-land canyons, rock rubble is a productive spider habitat © Rod Crawford |
Diverse wildflowers were everywhere © L. Ramseyer | Spiders can be colorful too: Phidippus johnsonii male © Rod Crawford |
Young Misumenops on Balsamorhiza © L. Ramseyer | Will you walk into my parlor? © L. Ramseyer |
Ribes flowers: habitat of... © Laurel Ramseyer | First Misumenops importunus from eastern Wash.! © Rod Crawford |
Bombylius major © Laurel Ramseyer | Time to head back up the canyon © Laurel Ramseyer |
Dictyna coloradensis © Rod Crawford | Dictyna webs were easy to spot with the sun low © Rod Crawford |
Sisyrinchium flower with beetle © L. Ramseyer | Ready to drive off into the twilight © Rod Crawford |