Selected photos by and Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford from our 15 May 2024 spider collecting trip to forest, wetland and clearcut habitats along Cape George Road, Quimper Peninsula, Jefferson County, Washington. All field photos are by Laurel, as Rod's camera was left in the lab! We collected in closed canopy red cedar/deciduous forest, open wetland, and a regrowing clearcut for fine overall variety. Our day's total was 45 species, making 53 with prior records.

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Spider sites on public land along Cape George Road (Jefferson County, 2021)	Too-low snowpack in the Olympics all too apparent from ferry       © Laurel Ramseyer
First stop, Greenwood Cemetery      © Laurel Ramseyer	We used mystery metal box as a landmark                © Laurel Ramseyer
Rod in the highly-overgrown old road   © Laurel Ramseyer	Fern and salal understory in the forest                   © Laurel Ramseyer
Salal understory was the most productive       © Laurel Ramseyer	Male Meioneta darrelli, numerous on salal            © Rod Crawford
Male Erigone cristatopalpus from marsh grass     © Rod Crawford	Under-bark retreat of Poecilochroa montana                  © Laurel Ramseyer
Siftable moss on tree trunk           © Laurel Ramseyer	Poecilochroa montana from retreat shown above             © Laurel Ramseyer
Grassy glade at marsh edge         © Laurel Ramseyer	More grass in the shade                       © Laurel Ramseyer
Snag with loose bark habitat           © Laurel Ramseyer	Araneus nordmanni orbweaver under bark                 © Laurel Ramseyer
Araniella displicata in single-leaf orb web     © Laurel Ramseyer	Uncommon Segestria from under bark                     © Laurel Ramseyer
Microlinyphia dana from leaf web        © Laurel Ramseyer	M. dana web in single giant nettle leaf                   © Laurel Ramseyer
Theridion sexpunctatum, commonest local spider   © Laurel Ramseyer	Cattails in standing water section of marsh                © Laurel Ramseyer
Marsh water                  © Laurel Ramseyer	Rod sifting the sparse leaf litter                       © Laurel Ramseyer
2 pseudoscorpions hitching a ride on a March fly (it's called phoresy) © Laurel Ramseyer	Male Bathyphantes keenii from moss                © Laurel Ramseyer
Gated road into old clearcut            © Laurel Ramseyer	Old clearcut with lots of reachable conifer foliage           © Laurel Ramseyer
Conifer foliage to beat            © Laurel Ramseyer	Grassy old road to sweep                     © Laurel Ramseyer
Neriene litigiosa web on gate         © Laurel Ramseyer	Sun sinking behind our homeward ferry               © Laurel Ramseyer

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