Riverside Place: Christmas Spider

Photo: C. Weir, December 18, 2010. California Trapdoor Spider is about an inch long, gauging by the Bougainvillea leaves for scale. (Click on photo to enlarge.) A California Trapdoor Spider has been hanging around a Red Car Property neighbor's yard. C. Weir wrote in an email, "I thought it was dead, and poked at it with keys to flip it over and the legs moved. It hung around the courtyard for