Album of Mission Beach Field Trip
Selected photos from a spider collecting field trip to a forest
east of Mission Beach, Snohomish County, Washington on 21 November 2007. Abbreviated
collecting time, plus an unexpectedly soaking wet site, conspired against me
but a rich leaf litter sample contributed to an adequate sample of 26 species.
Photos by Rod Crawford.
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Overgrown road, forest, and patches of salmonberry. Red "+" marks site. (USGS, 1990) | Big scar (lightning?) on maple trunk © Rod Crawford |
Big maple among little alders © Rod Crawford | Old road passes through a swamp belt © Rod Crawford |
Ferns on maple trunk © Rod Crawford | Mossy branches, rich in spiders © Rod Crawford |
Red cedar bark © Rod Crawford | Twisty maple among the cedars © Rod Crawford |
Spider-rich leaf litter © Rod Crawford | Set up for sifting in a maple crotch © Rod Crawford |
Top of red cedar tree © Rod Crawford | Sword-fern understory © Rod Crawford |
Old road continues beyond © Rod Crawford | Sunset at Mission Beach © Rod Crawford |