By Christy Solo – ONPA 1st Place Award Winner for Best Local Column
This week we’ll meet Oregon’s “other” lynx – the western lynx spider (Oxyopes scalaris).
At a teeny 5mm (under one-quarter of an inch) with excellent camouflage, it can be easy to walk right by a western lynx, or two, or three. The rhododendron in my yard in Trail was always home to five or so – each on their own…




