Album of Field Trip SE of Black Diamond

Selected photos from a spider collecting field trip to a mixed seral forest tract SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington (near the Black Diamond Gun Club), 1 November 2006. Photos by Rod Crawford.
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invasive Himalayan blackberry Rubus discolor covering high bank, SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington invasive Himalayan blackberry Rubus discolor and native forest meet at a road, SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington
Towering wall of invasive blackberry © Rod Crawford The blackberry tide meets the forest       © Rod Crawford
crab spiders Ozyptila pacifica, female and male, from SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington grass in overgrown road, SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington
Ozyptila pacifica, female & male  © Rod Crawford Grass habitat in overgrown road      © Rod Crawford
forest floor, SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington forest floor with bigleaf maple litter, SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington
Forest floor with vinemaple leaves  © Rod Crawford Forest floor with bigleaf maple litter         © Rod Crawford
microspider Linyphiidae Grammonota zephyra female from SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington sword fern Polystichum munitum in forest understory, SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington
Grammonota zephyra...        © Rod Crawford ...was taken from sword-fern understory    © Rod Crawford
fresh-fallen bigleaf maple leaves Acer macrophyllum, SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington fresh-fallen bigleaf maple leaves Acer macrophyllum, SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington
Fresh-fallen bigleaf maple leaves  © Rod Crawford ...the leaf litter of the future          © Rod Crawford
microspider Linyphiidae Wubana atypica male from SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington fallen dead leaves of bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum, SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington
Wubana atypica male (note carapace horn)
© Rod Crawford		 Decay will weave the leaves together into a litter community
© Rod Crawford
forest spider Dirksia cinctipes female from SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum silhouetted against wetland SE of Black Diamond, King County, Washington
Beautiful Dirksia cinctipes   © Rod Crawford Maple silhouette against the inaccessible wetland   © Rod Crawford

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