Home Page of Rod Crawford Curator of Arachnids The Burke Museum University of Washington Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195-3010 Voice (206) 543-9853 Fax (206) 685-3039 Email:

This page may incorporate something more substantive in the future, but at present it's mainly a placeholder. For the benefit of anyone who happens to find it, I include some links to info about myself. My UW position is curator of the arachnids and related research collections at The Burke Museum.

These pages are hosted at the museum:

•  The Spider Myths Site
  
•  Arachnology at the Burke Museum
  
•  Spider Curation Techniques  (PDF for download)
  
•  Links about Spiders
  

A few recent Burke Blog Articles:

•  The Weird World of Acuclavella Harvestmen
  
•  So This Spider Walks into a Pine Cone…
  
•  European Jumping Spider New to North America
  
•  Bob Thomson's Legacy
  
•  Two New Washington Spider Families
  

These pages are hosted privately:

•  Checklist of Washington Spiders
  
•  Spider Collector's Journal
  
•  Bug of the Month
  
•  Biography of Melville H. Hatch (my mentor)
  
•  Biography of Clarence E. Crawford (my father)
  

I am also affiliated with:

•  Scarabs: The Bug Society (editor of newsletter, "Scarabogram")
  
•  Friends of Campus Cats
  
•  MEOW Cat Rescue
  
•  Purrfect Pals Cat Rescue
  
•  Okhotskia (Biological Survey Projects in Far Eastern Russia)
  

I am available for public speaking and expert witness work on the subject of spiders.

This page last updated 28 November, 2018