by Nate Yuen | Nov 19, 2014
I stumbled on this really cool metallic golden spider on the Big Island! Earlier this year, Francis Joy and I went to Hawai’i Island to see what interesting critters we might find. During one of our nocturnal explorations on the slopes of Mauna Kea at Kalopā...
by Nate Yuen | Nov 30, 2013
We found a couple of Misumenops spiders endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. For the past several months, Francis Joy — better known as Jay — my spidering buddy — and I have been looking for endemic Hawaiian spiders in remote parts of the island. Photo...
by Nate Yuen | Oct 31, 2013
I stumbled on a cute little round spider in the mesic forests of the Waiʻanae Mountains. While hiking though the Waiʻanae Kai Forest Reserve, an unusual spider web less than an inch across caught my attention. The web was on the topside of an ʻalaʻa leaf —...
by Nate Yuen | Apr 29, 2013
I hiked in the Mokuleʻia Forest Reserve to see kāhuli or Oʻahu tree snails crawling on the native vegetation. During the night the temperature dropped to the low 60’s and rain fell intermittently on our campsite at about 2,200 feet elevation. When I got up at...
by Nate Yuen | Dec 7, 2012
For quite some time now I have been exploring remote ridges and gullies in the Waiʻanae Mountains to look for rare native plants and animals. Much of the Waiʻanae Mountains lie in the rain shadow of the Koʻolau Mountains and makes the Waiʻanae Mountains significantly...
by Nate Yuen | Mar 14, 2011
On the second day of our camp out we searched for native tree snails and happy face spiders in the mesic forests of the Mokuleʻia Forest Reserve. It was a misty and overcast morning as we pushed-off from the hunter’s shelter to look for native plants and animals...
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