Album of Royal City Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 11 May 2025 spider collecting trip to Royal City, Grant County, Washington. We collected at and around the town cemetery, an adacent sagebrush tract with an Eleagnus grove, and a nearby complex of school buildings with a canal alongside, for 32-33 species, while rain fell a few miles east of us. As a postscript, we added records to last week's gridspace with a stop on scenic Lower Crab Creek, where some unknown sharp object found its way into one of Laurel's tires!
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2023 NAIP aerial view of Royal City, Washington The town cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Our collecting sites in Royal City            (NAIP, 2023) The town cemetery (pine tree in foreground)          © Rod Crawford
sagebrush shrub at cemetery, Royal City, Washington sagebrush tract beside driveway of cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Sagebrush!              © Rod Crawford Big sagebrush tract beside cemetery driveway             © Rod Crawford
balsamroot plant among sagebrush by cemetery, Royal City, Washington female Misumenops lepidus spider, cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Balsamorhiza among the sagebrush      © Rod Crawford Misumenops/Mecaphesa live on both flowers and sagebrush    © Rod Crawford
shed/garage at cemetery, Royal City, Washington jumping spider Platycryptus californicus on shed, cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Cemetery has a very fancy shed         © Laurel Ramseyer Platycryptus californicus on shed wall            © Laurel Ramseyer
messy web of Dictyna calcarata, cemetery, Royal City, Washington Poecilochroa columbiana on shed, cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Dictyna calcarata is a very careless housekeeper!  © Laurel Ramseyer Poecilochroa columbiana posed, then escaped!              © Laurel Ramseyer
female spider Theridion melanurum, cemetery, Royal City, Washington juniper shrubs at edge of cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Theridion melanurum            © Laurel Ramseyer Juniper shrubs (cemetery windbreak) had spiders            © Laurel Ramseyer
hololena web on junper, cemetery, Royal City, Washington eastern white pine trees at south edge of cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Hololena web in junipers             © Laurel Ramseyer Eastern white pine trees at south edge of cemetery       © Laurel Ramseyer
pine cones among sagebrush, cemetery, Royal City, Washington Ebo evansae from pine cone, cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Pine cones across the driveway             © Rod Crawford Ebo evansae from pine cone                        © Laurel Ramseyer
Russian olive foliage south of cemetery, Royal City, Washington Russian olive thicket south of cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Russian olive foliage                © Rod Crawford Big Russian olive thicket south of cemetery              © Rod Crawford
Dictyna web in school window W of cemetery, Royal City, Washington Royal Intermediate School W of cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Somewhat neater Dictyna web in window   © Rod Crawford The Royal Intermediate School (no connection with royalty!)  © Rod Crawford
field alongside canal west of cemetery, Royal City, Washington canal just outside of school grounds, w of cemetery, Royal City, Washington
Sweepable field alongside canal        © Laurel Ramseyer Irrigation canal just outside of school grounds               © Laurel Ramseyer
2023 aerial photo of Lower Crab creek bridge, SW Grant County, Washington creek from Lower Crab creek bridge, SW Grant County, Washington
Red dot at Lower Crab Creek bridge           (NAIP, 2023) Lower Crab Creek above bridge                 © Rod Crawford
creekside marsh, Lower Crab creek bridge, SW Grant County, Washington meadow at Lower Crab creek bridge, SW Grant County, Washington
Creekside marsh                    © Laurel Ramseyer Riparian meadow was swept for spiders                   © Rod Crawford
undetermined Theridion from Royal City Cemetery, Washington emergent foliage along creek, Lower Crab creek bridge, SW Grant County, Washington
Unidentified juvenile Theridion        © Rod Crawford Emergent foliage at edge of creek                       © Rod Crawford
male spider Phidippus audax from near Royal Intermediate School, Royal City, Washington North face of Saddle Mountains seen from Lower Crab creek bridge, SW Grant County, Washington
Male Phidippus audax               © Laurel Ramseyer North face of Saddle Mountains                   © Laurel Ramseyer
Eleodes tenebrionid beetle, Lower Crab creek bridge, SW Grant County, Washington pre-sunset from north of Beverly, Washington on 11 May 2025
Eleodes beetles were ground-active   © Laurel Ramseyer Sun began to set as we waited for tire man                    © Rod Crawford
AAA driver arrives, N of Beverly, Washington sunset N of Beverly, Washington on 11 May 2025
The AAA man arrives!                    © Laurel Ramseyer Final phase of sunset                © Rod Crawford

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