Album of Winchester Lake Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 30 May 2024 spider collecting trip with Kathy Whaley to riparian and shrub-steppe habitats at Winchester Lake, central Grant County, Washington. It was Kathy's first eastern Washington spider trip! (The tumbleweeds delighted her). We swept, beat sagebrush, sampled plant-tip webs, got a couple of wolf spider species active, and found a disproportionate number of good species under a very small number of objects on the ground. With a visit to a nearby rest area, our total was 33 species, including some good ones.
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2021 aerial photo, vicinity of Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington panorama of public access site on Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Blue lake, green potato fields; red dot is our site (Grant County, 2021) Panorama of site entrance             © Laurel Ramseyer
flowers, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington riparian meadow and Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Steppe flowers            © Rod Crawford Riparian meadow and lake                     © Rod Crawford
cheat grass Bromus tectorum, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington wolf spider Pardosa moesta with egg sac, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Cheat grass seeds are hungry for your socks    © Laurel Ramseyer Pardosa moesta with egg sac                       © Laurel Ramseyer
bird tracks, shore of Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington mudy shore of Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Bird tracks in mud of…        © Rod Crawford …shore of Winchester Lake, home of active Pardosa         © Rod Crawford
unknown female Philodromus from meadow, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington marsh habitat on shore of Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Unknown female Philodromus       © Laurel Ramseyer Shoreline marsh habitat                     © Rod Crawford
sagebrush, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington sagebrush, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Sagebrush                © Rod Crawford Plenty of sagebrush for Kathy to beat                 © Rod Crawford
jumping spider Sassacus papenhoei, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington crab spider Misumenops celer from sagebrush, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Shiny Sassacus papenhoei            © Laurel Ramseyer Kathy's nice male M. celer                       © Rod Crawford
outhouse at boat launch, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington milkweed stand Asclepias speciosus, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Laurel contemplates the outhouse         © Rod Crawford Milkweed stand                 © Laurel Ramseyer
spider Steatoda fulva under wood, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington female jumping spider Phidippus johnsonii, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Steatoda fulva under board         © Laurel Ramseyer Female Phidippus johnsonii                     © Laurel Ramseyer
Lepthyphantes tenuis on fence, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington Laurel Ramseyer on road, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Lepthyphantes tenuis on fence        © Laurel Ramseyer Laurel seeks new habitats to conquer                   © Rod Crawford
balsamroot plant, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington Dictyna reticulata on fence, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Jaded-looking Balsamorhiza plant         © Rod Crawford Dictyna reticulata on fence                © Laurel Ramseyer
riparian meadow, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington juvenile Neoscona orbweaver, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Riparian meadow habitat              © Laurel Ramseyer Juvenile Neoscona orbweaver                       © Laurel Ramseyer
Dictyna coloradensis, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington irrigation near Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Dictyna coloradensis              © Laurel Ramseyer Irrigation water, ultimate source of the lake               © Rod Crawford
male tick Dermacentor variabilis swept at Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington lake water, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Male (full body shield) tick Dermacentor variabilis © Laurel Ramseyer Plenty of water in the lake                    © Rod Crawford
jumping spider Platycryptus californicus on sign, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington lake late in the day, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Platycryptus californicus on wood sign © Laurel Ramseyer The lake late in the day                     © Rod Crawford
green rabbit brush Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington jumping spider retreat on green rabbit brush, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Green rabbit brush, Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus    © Rod Crawford Retreat of Pelegrina helenae on green rabbit brush (sideways)  © Rod Crawford
Rod Crawford and Kathy Whaley, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington wire fence, Winchester Lake, Grant County, Washington
Rod, Kathy and tumbleweed            © Laurel Ramseyer Fence wire provides little spiders with secure niches           © Laurel Ramseyer
2021 aerial photo of Winchester Rest Area on I-90, Grant County, Washington jumping spider Attulus ammophilus from Winchester Rest Area on I-90, Grant County, Washington
Our site at Winchester Rest Area       (Grant County 2021) Attulus ammophilus from rest area               © Laurel Ramseyer
sign of Mountain High Hamburgers, Easton, Washington Wanapum reservoir from Vantage Bridge, Grant-Kittitas County, WA
Sign of the state's finest burgers        © Rod Crawford Drowned coulee walls from Vantage Bridge               © Laurel Ramseyer

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