Album of Centralia Canal Field Trip

Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to the Centralia Canal near McKenna, Washington on 23 October 2007 with Laurel Ramseyer, Rod Crawford, and two students named Jamal and Sean. Photos by Laurel and Rod, as credited. The gated canal access road reached by walking along railroad tracks brought us into beautiful, secluded riparian woods and fields, largely free of the worse invasive plants, where spiders were abundant and so diverse that we collected 64 species in a single day!
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vine maple leaves Acer circinatum, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
Light through vinemaple leaves © Laurel Ramseyer Along the canal                © Laurel Ramseyer
Douglas-fir foliage Pseudotsuga menziesii, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington fall colored bigleaf maple foliage, Acer macrophyllum, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
Douglas-fir foliage        © Rod Crawford Fall-colored maple                  © Rod Crawford
fall colored vine maple Acer circinatum, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington fall colored bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
More fall colors      © Rod Crawford Still more fall colors                   © Rod Crawford
students Jamal and Sean, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington student Jamal, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
Jamal and Sean with orbweaver cups  © L.Ramseyer Jamal leans over the water gate bridge     © Rod Crawford
Rod Crawford and student Sean, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington western thatching ant mound Formica obscuripes, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
Sean looks amazed while Rod checks out his spider      © Laurel Ramseyer Western thatching ant mound           © Laurel Ramseyer
fall colored vine maple Acer circinatum, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington common woolly bear larva Pyrrharctia isabella, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
Yellow vine maple       © Laurel Ramseyer Pyrrharctia isabella, different kind of fall color      © Laurel Ramseyer
orbwever Metallina segmentata Tetragnathidae, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington forest understory, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
Metellina segmentata      © Laurel Ramseyer Understory foliage          © Rod Crawford
dome weaver spider Neriene litigiosa Linyphiidae with prey, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington water chute and tunnel, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
Neriene litigiosa with prey      © Laurel Ramseyer The water gate leads iinto a tunnel        © Rod Crawford
leaf litter, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington water gate, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
Maple leaf litter         © Rod Crawford Leak in the water gate                   © Rod Crawford
water gate and chute, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington water chute and tunnel, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
Water flows into this chute...     © Rod Crawford ...and disappears underground        © Rod Crawford
cross spider orbweaver Araneus diadematus Araneidae, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington pond in woods, Centralia Canal, McKenna, Washington
Araneus diadematus        © Laurel Ramseyer The water tunnel feeds this pond           © Rod Crawford

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