Selected photos by Rod
Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 2 February 2016 spider collecting trip (with Ben Diehl) to the Padilla Bay Shore Trail and nearby Bay View Cemetery. Both habitats were low-productivity and high in introduced species; we successfully got a sample but not a spectacular one (27 species). However, we enjoyed ourselves and got in some good hiking on the shore trail. Don't miss Laurel's account here also!
The first 20 photos below are from the Padilla Bay Shore Trail site.
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Beginning of shore trail (Skagit County, 2015) | Once again Rod arose to witness the crack of dawn © Rod Crawford |
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Penultimate Neriene digna on wall © Laurel Ramseyer | Laurel collecting from peeling paint flakes © Rod Crawford |
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Table to sift on, but little to sift © Rod Crawford | Sweepable field? No such luck, standing water all over © Rod Crawford |
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Trailhead © Rod Crawford | Small cove by trailhead © Laurel Ramseyer |
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Juvenile linyphiid spider under a stone © Laurel Ramseyer | Rocks and riprap on the salt-water side of dike © Laurel Ramseyer |
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Phidippus sp., alas unidentifiable © Laurel Ramseyer | The trail begins © Laurel Ramseyer |
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Salticus scenicus from under beach rock © Laurel Ramseyer | Farther along the trail © Rod Crawford |
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Horrible invasive blackberry was common © Rod Crawford | Diked farmland just inland from the trail © Rod Crawford |
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Did marine climate form this shrubby tree? © Rod Crawford | Laurel swept the only adult Erigone aletris © Rod Crawford |
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We'd never have known this name but for the sign © Rod Crawford | Dike-side pumping station helps keep the land farmable © Rod Crawford |
After giving up on the Shore Trail (only 11 species), we hit nearby Bay View Cemetery hoping for better spiders.
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Bay View Cemetery from the air (Skagit County, 2015) | Woods habitat lines the cemetery road © Rod Crawford |
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Leafless maples © Rod Crawford | Maple trunks with moss & litter layer © Rod Crawford |
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Maple litter in situ © Rod Crawford | Rod endures discomfort to sift the litter © Laurel Ramseyer |
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Usofila pacifica from the maple litter © Rod Crawford | View of cemetery from entrance © Laurel Ramseyer |
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Fir foliage uncharacteristically spider-poor © Rod Crawford | Chips and bark produced a few spiders © Laurel Ramseyer |
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Lummi Mountain across fields & water © Laurel Ramseyer | Pasture northwest of the cemetery © Laurel Ramseyer |
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Lichen garden on a tombstone © Laurel Ramseyer | Lush moss garden on a tombstone © Laurel Ramseyer |
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Fly on a Douglas-fir cone © Laurel Ramseyer | Laurel tapped 50 fir cones and got some spiders © Laurel Ramseyer |
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March fly on a tombstone © Laurel Ramseyer | Theridiid web in tombstone's groove © Laurel Ramseyer |
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Philodromus rufus tries to balloon © Laurel Ramseyer | David (Tachygyna ursina) and Goliath Philodromus © Laurel Ramseyer |
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Snow on the foothills, a welcome sight © Laurel Ramseyer | Sunset from the Shore Trail trailhead © Rod Crawford |
This page last updated 8 February, 2016