Selected photos by Rod
Crawford and Cyndi Brast from our 24 May 2022 spider collecting trip to Reuben Tarte County Park, San Juan Island, Washington. Laurel and I journeyed to San Juan Island where she had sampling to do in the town of Friday Harbor and I hoped to collect in the county park that barely edges into one of the few unsampled gridspaces in the islands. Cyndi, who lives on the island and has been photographing spiders for years, agreed to meet me at the park and help out! Although the weather turned treacherous (morphing from partly cloudy to drizzle), we still managed to get 28 spider species at the park (plus a cool big Protolophus harvestman), making 29 with one prior record.
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| Our park, from the road to the sea (San Juan Co., 2016) | Willow Island from the ferry (Blakely Island in background) © Rod Crawford |
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| Official park map — not the world's most accurate | Park entrance sign © Rod Crawford |
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| Undetermined, large Protolophus male © Cyndi Brast | Beach with productive driftwood © Rod Crawford |
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| Early instar tent caterpillars © Rod Crawford | Beach, driftwood and headland © Rod Crawford |
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| Cyndi photographs an insect © Rod Crawford | Rod and Cyndi on the beach (taken by anonymous passer-by) |
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| Soldier beetle Podabrus pruinosus © Cyndi Brast | Unproductive grass & productive driftwood © Rod Crawford |
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| Mulsantina picta from headland conifers © Cyndi Brast | Out on the headland © Rod Crawford |
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| Stunted Douglas-fir on the headland © Rod Crawford | Wall of dense Douglas-fir foliage © Rod Crawford |
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| Rod examines a spider © Cyndi Brast | Meadow on the headland © Rod Crawford |
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| Male Pelecopsis sculpta from moss © Rod Crawford | Bottom of the upland habitats © Rod Crawford | |
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| Neighbor's marine mammal mailbox © Rod Crawford | Foliage at edge of parking lot © Rod Crawford |
This page last updated 1 June, 2022