Creepy Crawlies: The bugs of a Pacific Northwest garden

Creepy Crawlies: The bugs of a Pacific Northwest garden

From beneath logs to the petals of native flowers, some of the Pacific Northwest’s most fascinating garden residents are often the ones most easily overlooked.  Take the goldenrod crab spider, for example, an ambush predator commonly spotted on blooms throughout the Pacific Northwest. The spider, known scientifically as Misumena vatia, waits motionless on flowers before snatching unsuspecting pollinators. Snatching pollinators doesn’t sound too …