Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 13 April 2024 spider collecting trip (with Kathy Whaley) to pond and forest sites along Schafer Grade Road in Grays Harbor County, Washington. We collected mainly around an unnamed pond beside the private road (an offshoot of Cougar Smith Road), but hit other sites in passing, with a nice boost to our sample back near the gate. Our day's total was 41 species.

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White dots, Schafer Grade Road; red dots, our collecting sites (Grays Harbor County, 2021)	We hiked a mile beyond Green Diamond gate on the road       © Rod Crawford
Access allowed                 © Rod Crawford	Kathy and Laurel almost ready to roll                    © Rod Crawford
Yellow violets. Food plant for anyone?   © Laurel Ramseyer	Finally, the pond!                   © Rod Crawford
Rod sifting litter by roadside               © Laurel Ramseyer	Pond-bank alder litter was very spider-poor           © Rod Crawford
Kathy got a quite decent beat sample…     © Rod Crawford	…from the abundant sword fern understory                  © Rod Crawford
New bridge over nameless creek        © Laurel Ramseyer	The nameless creek the new bridge crossed                      © Rod Crawford
Good moss for sifting on alder trunk      © Rod Crawford	West end of the pond                       © Rod Crawford
Mossy alder trunks by creek         © Rod Crawford	Riparian understory that Laurel swept                 © Laurel Ramseyer
Male Theridion sexpunctatum, arguably our commonest spider © Laurel Ramseyer	Western hemlock & salal foliage                      © Rod Crawford
Spring rising of devil's club          © Laurel Ramseyer	Alas, invasive blackberry is established                   © Rod Crawford
Sitka spruce trunk; spiders under bark scales    © Laurel Ramseyer	Roadside trillia                    © Laurel Ramseyer
Cryphoeca exlineae from spruce bark   © Laurel Ramseyer	Rain-forest-like fern growth on swamp alder                   © Rod Crawford
Callobius pictus under spruce bark      © Laurel Ramseyer	Male Ceraticelus #2 from a guardrail                © Rod Crawford
Nesticus silvestrii from moss             © Rod Crawford	Alder-swemp end of wetland                   © Rod Crawford
Juvenile Trogloneta from spruce bark   © Laurel Ramseyer	Marsh/fen end of wetland                     © Rod Crawford
Pair of Neriene digna in copula         © Laurel Ramseyer	Red line of dusk as we approach home               © Rod Crawford

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