Album of Portage Creek Field Trip

Selected photos from the spider collecting / plant photography field trip to South Fork of Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington on 2 April 2005. All photos by Markku Savela. Note the rain-forest-like habitats, all within shouting distance of a busy state highway!
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alder flea beetle Altica ambiens, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae sifting leaf litter, south fork Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington
Altica ambiens, alder flea beetle © Markku Savela Rod sifting maple litter by the road        © Markku Savela
salmonberry Rubus spectabilis flower, south fork Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum trunk, south fork Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington
Rubus spectabilis, salmonberry © Markku Savela Acer macrophyllum, bigleaf maple trunk      © Markku Savela
licorice fern Polypodium glycyrrhiza on maple trunk mossy maple branches, south fork Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington
Polypodium glycyrrhiza, licorice-fern © Markku Savela Mossy maple branches                              © Markku Savela
European black slug Arion ater, south fork Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington western redcedar Thuja plicata, south fork Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington
Arion ater, European black slug      © Markku Savela Thuja plicata, western red cedar               © Markku Savela
maple leaf litter, south fork Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington banana slug Ariolimax columbianus, south fork Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington
Maple leaf litter             © Markku Savela Ariolimax columbianus, banana slug, on maple litter  © Markku Savela
decayed stump, south fork Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington bleedingheart Dicentra formosa, south fork Portage Creek, Snohomish County, Washington
Stump with rotten-wood fauna © Markku Savela Dicentra formosa, bleedingheart             © Markku Savela

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