Album of Little Quilcene Valley Field Trip

Selected photos by Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford from our 29 June 2023 spider collecting trip to sites west of Quilcene on the east coast of the Olympic Peninsula. We hit two sites along Little Quilcene Road (a higher forest on Deadfall Creek and a lower one near Lords Lake), and two along Penny Creek Road (a streamside and a clearcut). Despite an unpromising start (skunked at Quilcene Cemetery), in the end we scraped together another great 40-species sample! But we never actually visited the Little Quilcene River, though we did cross it lower down.
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2021 aerial photo of Deadfall Creek area, Clallam County, Washington entrance of Quilcene Cemetery, Quilcene, Washington
Deadfall Creek area, our sites in red      (Jefferson County, 2021) Entrance of Quilcene Cemetery                  © Rod Crawford
Laurel Ramseyer hunting vases in Quilcene Cemetery, Quilcene, Washington alder at Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington
Laurel seeking cemetery-vase spiders      © Rod Crawford Alders along Deadfall Creek                    © Rod Crawford
grassy verge habitat, Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington male linyphiid spider Pityohyphantes tacoma, Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington
Grassy verge habitat                © Rod Crawford Male Pityohyphantes tacoma                      © Laurel Ramseyer
empidid flies mating on a daisy, Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington understory beside Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington
Empidid flies mate on a daisy         © Laurel Ramseyer Understory beside Deadfall Creek            © Rod Crawford
Cornus unalaschkensis plant, Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington sword fern Polystichum munitum, Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington
Cornus unalaschkensis             © Rod Crawford Sword fern, nearly always spider-rich                  © Rod Crawford
cinnabar moth larvae Tyria jacobaeae, Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington butterfly Limenitis lorquini, Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington
Cinnabar moth larvae chomping away  © Laurel Ramseyer Lorquin's admirals were among the few butterflies         © Laurel Ramseyer
alder leaf litter by Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington crab spider Xysticus pretiosus with egg sac sifted from moss, Deadfall Creek, Clallam County, Washington
Alder litter, not very productive          © Rod Crawford Mother Xysticus pretiosus in mossy habitat             © Laurel Ramseyer
spider site near Lords Lake, Jefferson County, Washington gated road, spider site near Lords Lake, Jefferson County, Washington
Site near Lords Lake          (Jefferson County, 2021) Gated road where I hoped for a great conifer-beat sample       © Rod Crawford
too-high Douglas-fir branches, spider site near Lords Lake, Jefferson County, Washington roadside verge habitat, spider site near Lords Lake, Jefferson County, Washington
Alas, the branches were too high!         © Rod Crawford Laurel added a couple of roadside-verge species                © Rod Crawford
female crab spider Xysticus locuples, spider site near Lords Lake, Jefferson County, Washington Lords Lake, Jefferson County, Washington
Xysticus locuples found under wood   © Laurel Ramseyer Lords Lake shot through the chain-link fence                © Rod Crawford
spider sites along Penny Creek Road, Jefferson County, Washington riparian roadside, Penny Creek Road, Jefferson County, Washington
Sites along Penny Creek Road, next road south (Jefferson Co., 2019) Our better riparian sifting site                   © Laurel Ramseyer
Rod Crawford seeks leaf litter, Penny Creek Road, Jefferson County, Washington riparian alders, Penny Creek Road, Jefferson County, Washington
Rod enters woods seeking litter         © Laurel Ramseyer Riparian alders, source of litter and moss                   © Laurel Ramseyer
Douglas-fir foliage, clearcut, Penny Creek Road, Jefferson County, Washington clearcut, Penny Creek Road, Jefferson County, Washington
Good Douglas-fir foliage in clearcut    © Rod Crawford The clearcut that topped off our sample                © Rod Crawford
egg retreat of gnaphosid spider Callilepis pluto, clearcut, Penny Creek Road, Jefferson County, Washington female gnaphosid spider Callilepis pluto from clearcut, Penny Creek Road, Jefferson County, Washington
Retreat and egg sac of…             © Laurel Ramseyer …gnaphosid Callilepis pluto                  © Rod Crawford
fireweed in clearcut, Penny Creek Road, Jefferson County, Washington sinking sun behind Kingston-Edmonds ferry, Washington, 29 June 2023
Fireweed                     © Laurel Ramseyer Sun sinking behind our homeward ferry                       © Laurel Ramseyer

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