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| A western alligator lizard warms itself on a blacktop road in the early evening after a hot day in southwestern Oregon near Roseburg on Monday, July 7, 2014. Western alligator lizards are carnivores and will feed on anything small enough to swallow, including insects, snails, frog tadpoles, spiders, scorpions, grasshoppers and western skinks. |
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| A jumping spider clings to a reed growing in a small pond on a farm near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Sunday, July 6, 2014. Jumping spiders have four pairs of eyes; three secondary pairs and a principal pair that are movable. |
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| A spider and an ant struggle for control of a dead moth on a ragwort plant growing in a pasture on a farm near Elkton in rural southwestern Oregon on Saturday, June 28, 2014. |
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| After pulling for a while the moth ended up falling to the ground between the two critters. |
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| A cluster of cinnabar moth caterpillars are displayed in a glass jar in a pasture on a farm near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, June 28, 2014. The caterpillars are considered beneficial because they feed on toxic ragwort plants. The caterpillars were returned to the wild after being photographed. |
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| A rough skinned newt climbs on the rain spotted side-view mirror of a car parked along a county road near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Thursday, June 26, 2014. Rough skinned newts are amphibians. They live part of their lives in water and part on land. |
