Selected photos by Rod
Crawford from my 10 May 2015 spider collecting trip with volunteer Audrey Zehren. After an abortive attempt to reach the upper Chiwawa River, we ended up collecting around Grasshopper Meadows Campground, near the end of the White River Road, Chelan County, Washington. The so-called meadow was mostly a shrub community with aspen. Scenery and solitude abounded. Spiders were rather sparse at first, but we persisted and eventually visited a second site with a productive rockslide habitat; result, 32-34 species.
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River on left, "meadows" on right (Chelan County, 2015) | Shrubby "meadow" habitat © Rod Crawford |
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Local campground signs are missing © Rod Crawford | Trilliums in understory © Rod Crawford |
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We set up at a pic-a-nic table © Rod Crawford | Sheet web in outhouse © Rod Crawford |
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Vine maple thicket © Rod Crawford | Audrey got this nice female of Pityohyphantes #5 © Rod Crawford |
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Nice female Theridion lawrencei © Rod Crawford | Both of us swept the herb-shrub understory © Rod Crawford |
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Steep side of "White Mountains" ridge © Rod Crawford | Bank of White River near campground © Rod Crawford |
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Stream cobbles in gravel bar © Rod Crawford | Looking down the White River © Rod Crawford |
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Dead wood habitat © Rod Crawford | Very nice Cybaeopsis from maple litter © Rod Crawford |
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Aspen trunks © Rod Crawford | Near-impenetrable jungle in "meadow" habitat © Rod Crawford |
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Audrey chasing a wolf spider © Rod Crawford | Grand fir was the dominant conifer foliage available © Rod Crawford |
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Herbaceous patch in meadow © Rod Crawford | Conifer foliage habitat at meadow's edge © Rod Crawford |
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Meadow ground surface © Rod Crawford | Small grassy section of meadow © Rod Crawford |
Afterward, we hoped to add habitats a short way down the White River road. The big rockslide was an unexpected bonus!
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Our second site, featuring large rockslide (Chelan County, 2015) | Roadside with productive grassy verge © Rod Crawford |
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Audrey on the lookout for habitats © Rod Crawford | The Rock of Damocles looms over us © Rod Crawford |
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Audrey turns rocks for spiders © Rod Crawford | Alas, this might have been a rare Euophrys but was juvenile © Rod Crawford |
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Cottonwood littter at second site © Rod Crawford | Riparian cottonwood trunks © Rod Crawford |
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Roadside lupine © Rod Crawford | Still some snow on Mount Index © Rod Crawford |
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Not much more snow near Stevens Pass © Rod Crawford | Sun just setting as we pass through Monroe © Rod Crawford |
This page last updated 31 May, 2015