Emily MacLeod and Black Widow Spiders

She is back! Emily narrowly escaped from a day in jail at the US-Toronto boundary (airport) where she was kept locked up for hours while we sent "official" requests for the pleasure of her (unpaid) company. Our boys in white shirts at Homeland Security finally let her go, once assured that she was not going to be paid by UC Berkeley. Heck. They can hardly pay us! So, Emily and Katie Keogh are out in the field, literally walking it into strips looking for Black widow spiders. Joined by Tom Belissimo, out Toronto Trio were out standing in their field- Long Field. Spiders seem less abundant this year- maybe because it has been wet? Well, average rainfall for the last winter.