En Spider Sierran

En weekend uden møl kan føre en lepidopterist at gøre skøre ting. Skør nok til at fotografere en edderkop. I løbet af weekenden var jeg ledsaget til den østlige Sierra ved fyr insekt blogger, kollega og arachnologist, Tamas Szuts. Jeg var på jagt efter flere eksemplarer af en ny Hepialidae som du kan være bekendt med fra en tidligere indlæg. Jeg hørte rapporter fra andre, ved forhøjelser af 11.000 ' der stadig er en betydelig snedække selv ved udgangen af ​​juli. Jeg regnede Møl kan flyve sent i år, hvis overhovedet. Jeg havde håbet at fange i slutningen af ​​sommeren og møl både i perfekt synkronisering. Sådan var ikke mit held. Jeg vågnede lørdag morgen, sad oprejst, and brushed the frost off of my sleeping bag while desperately willing myself to brave the morning chill. Temps must have been pushing 25 degrees, a sign that autumn had return to the mountains. Two traps, a black light sheet and running around at dusk yielded zero Hepialidae and only ten moths in total (four species).

And so I was encouraged by Tamas to actually photograph a non-lep, something that I should do more often. He had joined me eager to not only see the Sierra for the first time, but to find the beautiful Salticidae – Habronattus americanus. This little jumper can be found in the western states in rocky areas above 7,000′. After an hour or two of searching, Tamas finally captured a stunning pair. I must agree that this is a beautiful little spider. Visit his blog (in Hungarian) to see some of his stunning images as well.

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