#forest death

[usgsbiml]

Ah, this is the duck spider....so named by Anders, the tech who took the photo.  It is duckish, but it is not actually named the "duck spider".  Fact is we don't know what spider it is.  It is the sort of thing that ends up in few flicks of our nets in the globally rare Pinus rigida forests of the Beltsville Ag center.