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When I approach my garden boxes in my backyard, I notice a lot of dark spiders start to scurry around and hide from me. See one in the photo above? Here is a closeup. It looks like it is a Wolf Spider. Wolf Spiders generally do not spin webs. This spider is easy . . . → Read More and See Photos: Wolf Spiders Basking 
The area near our front door is spider heaven. We generally leave them alone- it gives us something fun to look at every time we walk through the front door, and it keeps other insects away unless they want to become spider food. The spider shown in the above photos lives on our . . . → Read More and See Photos: Spider Frenzy 
This scene played out next to my front door. We have a lot of spiders living in the lamps, nooks, and crannies on our small porch and I basically leave them alone. This is one reason why. That is a termite, most likely a Pacific Dampwood Termite. This is probably a male that was . . . → Read More and See Photos: Thank You Spider 
Our front porch is spider heaven. I usually leave them alone throughout the summer because it gives me a great chance to watch them in action. Plus, they do a very good job of eating insects flying around our front door. This spider above is a Cross Spider and it is getting huge… . . . → Read More and See Photos: Huge Cross Spider 
My Beach Daisies are starting to bloom! They are a plant native to Oregon and will now bloom constantly for the rest of the summer. I actually have to cut them back to keep them from overwhelming my other plants. Today they were chock full of wildlife, including one of the coolest spiders I . . . → Read More and See Photos: Beach Daisy Wildlife 
“Dad, hurry up!” That is a sentence I hear a lot around my house. Luckily, this time my son was calling me outside to look at something. I asked what was going on and he said “A Cross Spider has a Boxelder Bug caught in its web!” Not bad for an 8-year old, huh? . . . → Read More and See Photos: Cross Spider Cuts Boxelder Bug Loose 
Yesterday in my backyard I saw this flower on a plant poking through my neighbor’s fence. Wait a second- is that really a flower? No! It is a bunch of spiderlings, or baby spiders. According to Insects of the Pacific Northwest by Peter and Judy Haggard, these are Black-and-yellow Argiopes (or Garden . . . → Read More and See Photos: Spider Flower? 
I found this spider on a stinging nettle leaf in the woods behind our house. I moved in for some closeups, being careful of course not to get pricked by the stingers on the bottom of the nettle leaf! This spider has some seriously long front legs, and is in an interesting . . . → Read More and See Photos: Spider Stretching Out |
 
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