Selected photos from a solo spider collecting trip to a quite nice forested park on the outskirts of Kingston on the Kitsap Peninsula. Nearly a month since the last dry-enough collecting weather, the spiders were still there. There was only a little blackberry, and habitats included Douglas-fir forest, maple forest, alder with a less familiar tree that turned out to be cascara, and a natural meadow with wild rose! The litter fauna was rich, and though each other habitat had relatively few species, the end result of a pleasant, solitary late-fall day was a 31-species catch. Photos by Rod
Crawford.
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Aerial view: park includes everything N of house/driveway & E of road. Open space is meadow – not lawn! (Kitsap County) | Ferry approaches Kingston dock © Rod Crawford |
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Pelecopsis sculpta (note dorsal shield) © Rod Crawford | Trail for barefoot boys? © Rod Crawford |
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Maple litter was very spider-rich here © Rod Crawford | Some cut log sections gave me a sifting platform © Rod Crawford |
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This big maple produced my best litter © Rod Crawford | Why do leafless maples look like they're reaching for something? © Rod Crawford |
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How nice – a tree trunk with ferns instead of ivy! © Rod Crawford | Understory foliage produced an array of spiders © Rod Crawford |
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I wonder what teams play there? © Rod Crawford | Oh, so that's what the sign meant! © Rod Crawford |
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Fungus on cut side will turn log into spider habitat © Rod Crawford | Abundant salal makes for a nice, spider-rich understory © Rod Crawford |
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Shrooms on my sifting platform © Rod Crawford | Bathphantes orica female © Rod Crawford |
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Ever-reliable Douglas-fir foliage © Rod Crawford | Presence of lodgepole pine suggests meadow is natural © Rod Crawford |
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Stand of wild rose had nice hips © Rod Crawford | Tall-grass meadow in foreground, rose thicket behind © Rod Crawford |
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Face of male Ceratinops inflatus © Rod Crawford | Brown bracken in the meadow © Rod Crawford |
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Cascara tree provided the main fall color © Rod Crawford | Not as colorful as the sunset, though © Rod Crawford |
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Male Walckenaeria cornuella © Rod Crawford | And so we say farewell to Kingston until another collecting day © Rod Crawford |
This page last updated 6 December, 2009