Selected photos by Rod
Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 8 November 2018 spider collecting trip to a site along the Whitehorse Trail, 3 miles E of Oso and 1 mile W of the 2014 landslide, Snohomish County, Washington. For possibly the last field trip of a very productive year, we picked a lowland riparian site that offered some good habitats, though extensive invasive blackberry interfered significantly. Despite colder-than-predicted temperatures, we came away with a respectable 33-species sample, and supplemented samples from 2 other areas as well.
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| Main site on trail E of Oso (Snohomish County, 2012) | Highway bridge on left, trail bridge on right © Rod Crawford |
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| Laurel slips under the bridge to harvest moss © Rod Crawford | Laurel sifting moss in the morning cold © Rod Crawford |
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| Farmyard by roadside where I beat trees © Rod Crawford | Whitehorse Trail heads up hill from that roadside © Rod Crawford |
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| We weren't expecting frost! © Laurel Ramseyer | But places where the sun didn't shine were frosty © Laurel Ramseyer |
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| Laurel still bundled against the cold © Rod Crawford | Whitehorse Trail a beautiful walk in the fall © Rod Crawford |
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| Snowberries were common © Laurel Ramseyer | Warmest spot I could find for sifting © Rod Crawford |
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| Fall color was falling to the ground © Rod Crawford | Blackberry to the right of them… © Rod Crawford |
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| Productive Douglas-fir foliage © Rod Crawford | Alders grow from a wet depression © Rod Crawford |
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| Almost rainbow-colored fallen leaf © Rod Crawford | Beating broom produced lots of Theridion simile © Rod Crawford |
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| Brilliant rose hips © Rod Crawford | The wild roses were very hippy © Rod Crawford |
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| Riverside Sitka spruce tree… © Rod Crawford | …branches drooping like a weeping willow © Rod Crawford |
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| River-bank maple had the best litter © Rod Crawford | Base of big maple provides both moss & litter © Laurel Ramseyer |
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| Rod's sifter full of the good leaf litter © Rod Crawford | Large private field: lawn? pasture? polo ground? © Rod Crawford |
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| Spider-bearing moss by the river © Laurel Ramseyer | End of field had some sweepable habitat © Rod Crawford |
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| Laurel shed layers in brief afternoon warmth © Rod Crawford | Houses across river: source of some non-natives? © Laurel Ramseyer |
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| Bassaniana from C Post Road Bridge © Rod Crawford | C Post Road Bridge at dusk © Laurel Ramseyer |
This page last updated 13 November, 2018