Album of Marten Lake Creek Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 16 August 2024 spider collecting trip (with Kathy Whaley) to the lower SE flank of Mt. Baker, Whatcom County, Washington. We followed ultra-bumpy Forest Road 1130 to a loop where it approaches (but does not reach) small Marten Lake. There, we collected from roadside, "meadow," forest, bog and streamside, netting 26 species, some of them potentially very interesting, and checking off another unsampled area.
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2022 aerial photo of Marten Lake area, Whatcom County, Washington with 2024 spider sites Kathy Whaley's car parked on Forest Road 1130 near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Marten Lake; roadside & meadow sites in red  (Whatcom County 2022) Laurel and Kathy at our parking spot                      © Rod Crawford
roadside verge habitat, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington roadside vegetation zones, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Roadside verge to be swept          © Rod Crawford Floral zones: road, verge, willow shrubs, forest           © Rod Crawford
willow shrub thicket, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington gnaphosid spider Zelotes fratris from roadside rock, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Willow shrub thickets had leaf litter       © Rod Crawford Male Zelotes fratris under a roadside rock                 © Laurel Ramseyer
salmonberry foliage, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington low cloud deck, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Salmonberry was abundant, but ripe berries scarce    © Rod Crawford Cloud deck was low when we arrived                      © Rod Crawford
blue huckleberries, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington blue huckleberries, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Nature's snack bar               © Rod Crawford There seemed to be 2 blue huckleberry species              © Laurel Ramseyer
shrub "meadow", near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington shrub "meadow", near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Laurel's "meadow", mainly shrubs with tall herbs  © Laurel Ramseyer Edge of the shrub "meadow"                    © Laurel Ramseyer
penultimate female Helophora spider from meadow, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington Clubiona pacifica mother and young from leaf nest on shrub, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Penultimate Helophora from "meadow"  © Laurel Ramseyer Clubiona pacifica & young from shrub leaf nest               © Laurel Ramseyer
crab spider Xysticus pretiosus from shrubs, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington female Tetragnatha laboriosa, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Xysticus pretiosus from "meadow"       © Rod Crawford Tetragnatha laboriosa was in 4 habitats                   © Laurel Ramseyer
true fir Abies amabilis trunk, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington Sphagnum bog, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Classic true-fir trunk             © Rod Crawford Laurel found a lovely Sphagnum bog beyond the shrub meadow           © Rod Crawford
Sphagnum plants in bog, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington surface of Sphagnum bog, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Individual Sphagnum plants          © Rod Crawford Surface of the Sphagnum bog                  © Rod Crawford
The creek itself, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington end of trail at the creek, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Marten Lake Creek, itself             © Laurel Ramseyer Arriving at the creek; trail ends here           © Laurel Ramseyer
Nelima paessleri harvestman, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington Nelima paessleri harvestman, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Nelima paessleri on driftwood            © Laurel Ramseyer Closeup of Nelima, a classic harvestman                  © Laurel Ramseyer
dead wood habitat, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington stream cobbles, near Marten Lake Creek, Whatcom County, Washington
Dead wood habitat               © Laurel Ramseyer Stream cobbles gave one spider species                  © Laurel Ramseyer
Abies amabilis Pacific silver fir foliage, near Marten Lake Creek, Mt. Baker, Whatcom County, Washington Tsuga mertensiana mountain hemlock foliage, near Marten Lake Creek, Mt. Baker, Whatcom County, Washington
Abies amabilis foliage                 © Laurel Ramseyer Tsuga mertensiana foliage                         © Rod Crawford
coccinellid beetle Mulsantina picta, near Marten Lake Creek, Mt. Baker, Whatcom County, Washington jumping spider Pelegrina aeneola, near Marten Lake Creek, Mt. Baker, Whatcom County, Washington
Unconventional lady beetle        © Laurel Ramseyer Pelegrina aeneola from conifer foliage         © Laurel Ramseyer
female wolf spider Pardosa dorsuncata with egg sac, near Marten Lake Creek, Mt. Baker, Whatcom County, Washington female spider Bathyphantes brevipes
Pardosa dorsuncata with her egg sac   © Laurel Ramseyer Bathyphantes brevipes beaten from meadow shrubs            © Rod Crawford
glacier milk in Boulder Creek, SE base of Mt Baker, Whatcom County, Washington Boulder Creek, SE base of Mt Baker, Whatcom County, Washington
Glacier milk in Boulder Creek            © Rod Crawford Boulder Creek gives us our first & last glimpse of Mt. Baker     © Rod Crawford
gaudy green/yellow sawfly larva, near Marten Lake Creek, Mt. Baker, Whatcom County, Washington sunset near Mt. Vernon, Washington on 16 August 2024
Flamboyantly gaudy caterpillar         © Laurel Ramseyer Sun nearly-set near Mount Vernon             © Rod Crawford

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