Album of Burfoot Park Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford, Laurel Ramseyer and Markku Savela from our 3 July 2018 spider collecting trip (with Jerry Austin and Markku's family members) to Burfoot Park on Budd Inlet of Puget Sound, in Thurston County, Washington. The gridline bisects the park and only spiders collected on the "beach" side of the line count toward the total for the previously unsampled area, but we nontheless recorded 32 species there. The park was well-supplied with invasive species (especially ivy) but still had some good spider species. Yr reporter went up and down the various trails from the lawns to the beach to maximize species, while some others picnicked. A pleasant time was had by all.
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2012 aerial view of Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington showing 2018 spider localities park lawns, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Some of our spider sites shown in red      (Thurston County, 2012) Park lawns area, suitable for picnicking           © Rod Crawford
Laurel Ramseyer tapping pine cones for spiders, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington cones of white pine Pinus monticola, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Laurel began by tapping pine cones      © Rod Crawford Cones of white pine at edge of lawn                © Rod Crawford
sign for beach trail, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington beginning of main trail to beach, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Sign for the most direct route to beach      © Rod Crawford Beach trail begins; it gets steeper soon!           © Rod Crawford
poison oak warning sign, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington first sign of beach, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Overstated sign; no poison oak in forest     © Rod Crawford First sight of beach showed some promising habitat         © Rod Crawford
beach meadow foliage, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington beach, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
I swept some spiders from beach meadow  © Rod Crawford The Nanny State cautions swimmers          © Rod Crawford
poison oak Rhus beach, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
I saw only 3 poison oak patches, all facing beach    © Rod Crawford Jerry Austin gazes down the beach                 © Rod Crawford
beach wrack being sifted for spiders, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington pond and beach meadow, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Sifting beach wrack got me no spiders    © Rod Crawford Pond, berm, beach meadow and Jerry           © Rod Crawford
Puget Sound gumweed Grindelia integrifolia, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington English ivy Hedera helix in forest, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Puget Sound gumweed on the beach    © Markku Savela Much of the forest is overrun with English ivy           © Rod Crawford
leaf litter in forest, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington ferny understory in forest, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Leaf litter didn't yield many species        © Rod Crawford But ferny understory was reasonably productive       © Rod Crawford
beach bluff, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington beach bluff, Himalayan blackberry in foreground, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Madrona-crowned beach bluff         © Markku Savela Horrid blackberry patch, and Jerry at foot of bluff               © Rod Crawford
moss on tree trunks, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington Laurel Ramseyer sifting moss, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Rich moss on tree trunks            © Laurel Ramseyer Laurel sifting moss                © Markku Savela
pirate spider Mimetidae Ero canionis from moss, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington moss on tree limbs, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Pirate spider Ero canionis from moss    © Laurel Ramseyer Dense moss on tree limbs                    © Laurel Ramseyer
dragonfly Plathemis lydia by beach pond, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington giant red cedar trunk, Thuja plicata, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Plathemis lydia by beach pond         © Markku Savela Giant red cedar trunk                     © Rod Crawford
geometrid moth Perizoma sp. on restroom, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington sierra dome spider Neriene litigiosa, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Geometrid moth, Perizoma sp.         © Markku Savela Neriene litigiosa male                © Laurel Ramseyer
Mysmenid spider Trogloneta sp. from pine cones, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington theridiid spider Theridion varians with gnaphosid spider prey, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Tiny Trogloneta from pine cone          © Laurel Ramseyer Theridion varians with gnaphosid spider prey            © Laurel Ramseyer
house spider female and male Achaearanea Parasteatoda tepidariorum, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington western park restroom building, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
American House spider and her mate   © Laurel Ramseyer Many spiders taken on this restroom building        © Laurel Ramseyer
Markku Savela, Rod Crawford, Jerry Austin and Laurel Ramseyer in Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington Savela family picnic, Burfoot Park, Thurston County, Washington
Four naturalists confer            © Markku Savela While the Savela family picnics         © Markku Savela

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