Selected photos by Rod
Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 10 October 2019 spider collecting trip to a site on the north side of Egg and I Road, Jefferson County, Washington. Still largely farming country, as it was in the 1920s when the events of the classic eponymous book took place, there is a half-section of public timberland where, despite the wretched invasive blackberry, we managed to get a sample, supplemented at dusk in the ravine of nearby Swansonville Road where we got no photos, for a 43 species total (adding to 3 older records).
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| Our site in red, plus other features (Jefferson County, 2015) | Gated logging road we hiked up © Rod Crawford |
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| Rhododendron bush © Rod Crawford | Continuing up the gated road © Rod Crawford |
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| The plant that destroys habitats! © Rod Crawford | Logging road becomes grassy toward its end © Laurel Ramseyer |
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| Some shady spots taken over © Rod Crawford | Laurel didn't get very much in Douglas-fir cones © Laurel Ramseyer |
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| Lush, spider-bearing Douglas-fir © Rod Crawford | More foliage than one collector could ever beat © Rod Crawford |
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| Laurel sorting a sweep sample © Rod Crawford | Grass habitat on road and clearcut © Rod Crawford |
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| This time, broom had few spiders © Rod Crawford | Brushwhack into the ravine has barely begun! © Laurel Ramseyer |
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| Maple tree guarded by spiny vines! © Rod Crawford | Maple litter similarly guarded! © Rod Crawford |
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| Laurel finds steep-slope sifting not so easy! © Rod Crawford | Edge of the scarcely-penetrable ravine jungle © Laurel Ramseyer |
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| Tall mature Douglas-fir © Laurel Ramseyer | Mushrooms on a log © Laurel Ramseyer |
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| Some early fall color in the ravine © Laurel Ramseyer | Laurel beating non-native pine cones in Chimacum © Rod Crawford |
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| Little shack yielded some house spiders © Rod Crawford | Entrance of Egg and I Farm © Rod Crawford |
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| Sunset in Chimacum Valley © Rod Crawford | Sunset over Hood Canal © Rod Crawford |
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