Album of Point Defiance Park BioBlitz Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 27 April 2018 spider collecting trip to Point Defiance Park, a 760-acre mostly natural forest area that occupies most of a peninsula, to help with their official BioBlitz. For those who don't know, a BioBlitz is a marathon effort to record as many species of living things as possible from a given area in a given time. We were lucky to have a dry (though cloudy) day, and found 53 spider species (45 positively identifiable) and several other non-insect arthropods, as well as recording (though not collecting) assorted insects — a big success! Don't miss Laurel's account of the day here.
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2017 airphoto of Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington salal & maple litter at Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
South part of park, our sites in red     (Pierce County, 2017) Salal & maple litter, two excellent spider habitats               © Rod Crawford
coccinellid beetle Mulsantina picta, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington maple leaf litter in sifter, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
Ladybird Mulsantina picta        © Laurel Ramseyer Leaf litter ready to sift                  © Rod Crawford
Rod Crawford sifting leaf litter, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington tall wall of salal, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
Rod begins to sift!            © Laurel Ramseyer Another tall wall of salal            © Rod Crawford
European earwig male Forficula auricularia, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington linyphiid sheetweb weaver Coreorgonal monoceros from leaf litter, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
Male Forficula auricularia         © Laurel Ramseyer Coreorgonal monoceros from leaf litter             © Rod Crawford
Achaearanea Parasteatoda tepidariorum house spider, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington concession building, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
"American house spider"             © Laurel Ramseyer Concession building, house-spider habitat                  © Rod Crawford
agelenid spider Calymmaria emertoni from building, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington Tegenaria (Eratigena) sp. probably gigantea giant house spider, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
Native Calymmaria suprema         © Laurel Ramseyer European house spider, also from building                  © Laurel Ramseyer
western hemlock foliage on beach, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington natural beach habitats, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
Conifer foliage on beach         © Laurel Ramseyer Natural beach habitats, surprisingly lacking in spiders       © Laurel Ramseyer
moss on maple trunk, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington juvenile Antrodiaetus folding-door spider, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
Moss for the sifting       © Laurel Ramseyer Antrodiaetus folding-door spider, unfortunately juvenile    © Laurel Ramseyer
male flower crab spider Misumena vatia, Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington grass meadow at Northwest Native Plant Garden, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
Male flower crab spider Misumena vatia  © Laurel Ramseyer Grass meadow was a welcome sight               © Rod Crawford
older trillium plant Trillium ovatum, Northwest Native Plant Garden, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington standing stones sculpture, Northwest Native Plant Garden, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
A trillium that's been around for a while    © Rod Crawford The mystic Standing Stones                  © Rod Crawford
Cybaeus species and its exuvium in same Pseudotsuga cone, Northwest Native Plant Garden, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington Douglas-fir cones Pseudotsuga menziesii, Northwest Native Plant Garden, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
Proof this Cybaeus molted in the cone   © Laurel Ramseyer Douglas-fir cones ready for tapping             © Laurel Ramseyer
meadow habitat, Northwest Native Plant Garden, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington mountain hemlock foliage Tsuga mertensiana, Northwest Native Plant Garden, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington
Perfect habitat but no wolf spiders!       © Rod Crawford Mountain hemlock foliage, very productive               © Rod Crawford
black-tailed deer between Northwest Native Plant Garden and parking lot, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington Sky prior to sunset from I-5 in south Seattle, 27 April 2018
Oh, deer         © Rod Crawford Next best thing to sunset                 © Rod Crawford

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