Album of East Wenatchee Field Trip

Selected photos by Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford from our 21 June 2023 spider collecting trip to East Wenatchee, Douglas County, Washington. In pursuit of a full spider sample from this part-urban, part-agricultural and part-sagebrush area, the plan was to visit three sites, a cemetery, a riparian trail and a county-owned sagebrush tract. Only the cemetery worked out as planned. The trail was high above the riverbank and the county has for no apparent reason, barred access to their sagebrush tract, which ought to be considered public land! In the end, we "missed it by that much" with 20 species.
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aerial photo of spider collecting sites in East Wenatchee, Washington welcome sign in Ballard Park, East Wenatchee, Washington
Urban part of East Wenatchee with 3 collecting sites in red
(Douglas County 2022)		 Home of Miss Veedol? Oh wow, just imagine that!            © Rod Crawford
dangling Douglas-fir foliage in Evergreen cemetery, East Wenatchee, Washington Laurel Ramseyer in Evergreen "Memorial Park" cemetery, East Wenatchee, Washington
Dangling Douglas-fir produced a few spiders © Rod Crawford Laurel in Evergreen "Memorial Park" cemetery           © Rod Crawford
Ailanthus foliage, flower along Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington
Tree-of-Heaven along waterfront trail    © Laurel Ramseyer The Apple Capital Trail (footbridge in background)        © Rod Crawford
slope to river from Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington footbridge in squally weather, Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington
No beach, just steep slope/cliff from trail to river © Laurel Ramseyer Storm across river, former-railroad footbridge                © Laurel Ramseyer
tree by footbridge, Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington dry leaf litter, Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington
This tree shed the litter I sifted         © Laurel Ramseyer Nearly bone-dry litter produced one spider         © Rod Crawford
pine cones, Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington spitting spider Scytodes thoracica, Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington
Laurel tapped 100 of these pine cones  © Laurel Ramseyer Scytodes thoracica, prize find from the cones                 © Rod Crawford
female spider Dictyna calcarata from pine cones, Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington crab spider Bassaniana utahensis from pine cones, Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington
Dictyna calcarata also from pine cones   © Laurel Ramseyer Flat Bassaniana utahensis, also from pine cones         © Laurel Ramseyer
ellow-bellied marmot and Rod Crawford, Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington Rod Crawford beating planted pine tree, Apple Capital Trail, East Wenatchee, Washington
Marmot creeps up on Rod who unknowingly occupies its sunning rock
© Laurel Ramseyer		 Rod beating foliage of planted pine tree                 © Laurel Ramseyer
Aerial photo shows proposed and actual spider collecting sites on Badger Mountain Road, East Wenatchee, Washington water tower at our last site, Badger Mountain Road, East Wenatchee, Washington
Dashed line, our expected sagebrush area; red dot, where we wound up
(Douglas County, 2022)		 Access to this water tower preserved a bit of sagebrush     © Laurel Ramseyer
aerial view of water tower site, Badger Mountain Road, East Wenatchee, Washington faint dirt track through sagebrush, Badger Mountain Road, East Wenatchee, Washington
Close-up shows tiny extent of habitat surrounded by wheat
(Douglas County, 2022)		 Faint dirt track through the sagebrush                © Rod Crawford
green bee, Badger Mountain Road, East Wenatchee, Washington wheat field, Badger Mountain Road, East Wenatchee, Washington
Beautiful green bee               © Laurel Ramseyer Amber waves of grain                    © Rod Crawford
dry sagebrush habitat, Badger Mountain Road, East Wenatchee, Washington stormy weather in distance, Badger Mountain Road, East Wenatchee, Washington
How dry the habitat!           © Rod Crawford Stormy weather; but rain showers made nothing wet            © Rod Crawford
lupine, Badger Mountain Road, East Wenatchee, Washington sunset on 21 June 2023 from I-90 in eastern Kittitas County, Washington
Blooming lupine at our site           © Rod Crawford Sunset from eastern Kittitas County                    © Rod Crawford

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