Post-doctoral Fellow in Wayne Maddison's lab at UBC
Department of Zoology
6270 University Boulevard
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
1-604-827-5249 (lab)
E-mail: jxzhang1976@gmail.com
Field Gallery
2009 Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
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| Our lovely field station in Manabao, La Vega, DR | My bright bedroom and cozy bed in Manabao field station, DR. | The local family that assisted us in Manabao field station, DR. | Beautiful scene around the Manabao field station with a nice stream running by. | And pretty flowers in the backyard of the Manabao field station. | More pretty flowers. | More pretty flowers. | More pretty flowers. | With no electricity at night in Manabao field station, we had to process specimens in dark. | Wayne taking photos on living jumping spiders. Trust me, it is not easy! | Whenever we had a break, I would work on field notes. | Brushing turns out to be an efficient way to collect tree trunk dwelling jumping spiders. | Luxurious resort in Constanza, DR and yes, AND we stayed there for one night! | Me making breakfast: peanut butter and jelly sandwich. | Valle Nuevo, DR high elevation pine forest, where we collected quite a few "handsome"! | We called him "handsome". Females that may pair with him came with many different markings ... | One female... | Another female... | Another female... | Another female... | Another female, and more... | Laguna de Oviedo, DR, where we found a weird euophryine jumping spider with flattened front legs in males. It turned out to be a new genus! | Here is the "weirdo". Look at his front legs... | I always wonder how Wayne managed to get into those dense bushes and beat! | Beautiful sea view along the way. Unfortunately we had no time to stop and enjoy... | Gustavo and I organizing specimens we just collected. We certainly brought lots of stuff in the field: walkie-talkie, GPS, beating sheet and stick, brush, many many glass vials... | Me searching for "Dinattus", a euophryine jumping spider we were dying to find, in Rio Mulito, DR. | Our lovely guide, Nicolas, found the first "Dinattus"! | Here comes the "Dinattus". Look at the lateral extensions on his carapace! | Front view of male "Dinattus". | Cloud forest in Cachote, DR. | Beating bromelids at the edge of cloud forest of Cachote, DR, we found... | This interesting Corythalia species. The white ball behind the spider is her poop! | Guanica, PR dry forest. | Maricao, PR wet forest, where we found... | This lovely striped Anasaitis (male). | Guajataca, PR wet forest, where we found... | This guy, belonging to the same genus as the "weirdo" from Oviedo, DR. |
2008 Panama
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| View of Panama Canal from air. | Wet forest in Fortuna. | We stayed in the STRI field station at Fortuna. | Field station at Fortuna. | Michael (co-leader of the expedition) and his student Andrew, sampling from leaf litter at night. | Amazing insect collection by our guide in Fortuna. | Heading to mangrove site in Bocas. | Mangrove sampling did not turn out exciting for jumping spiders. | Beautiful beach in Bocas. | After one-day collecting, we still have a huge amount of work at night: photography living spiders and preserve specimens. | We went up to the canopy by crane. My first time to go up to canopy, exciting! And many cool jumping spiders in canopy, especially dendryphantines... | Such as this... | and this... | and this. | Beautiful scene in Punta Galeta. | I almost got eaten by sandflies! | Beautiful forest along Pipeline Road. | Forest in BCI (Barro Colorado Island). | Some interesting jumping spiders we found: cute Cotinusa (male) by beating foliage... | Synageline (female) by beating mossy twigs and foliage... | Sarinda (female), an ant-mimicing jumping spider that almost tricked me in the field... | A small Zygoballus (male subadult) waving front legs... | A very elongate Synemosyna (male)... | A tinny beetle-like Cylistella... | A pretty Thiodina (male) from palm and other wide leaves... | A handsome cf. Freya (male)... | A female Hypaeus by beating foliage... | A euophryine jumping spider (male) with extremely hairy palps... | A striped Lyssomanes (male)... | A female Phiale with happy face marking... | A large female Itata... | An elegant Chinoscopus... | A robust Rudra (male)... | A fat female Beata... | A colorful and elongate Psecas... | A female jumping spider guarding her eggsac. | A male "Cobanus" with long jaws. And many more... |
2005 Malaysia and Singapore
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| Beautiful forest in Malaysia. | Enjoy delicious Chinese food in Malaysia. | The first tetrablemmid spider I have ever collected. | Tetrablemmidae, dorsal view. | Dr. Li was teaching me how to take photos on living spiders using his fancy camera set-up. | Lovely field station in Ulu Gombak. | Ingi processing specimens in hotel. | We finally made dumplings at Dr. Li's home, because in the field whenever they asked me what I wanted for dinner I would say dumplings. | And Wayne very creatively made this "jumping spider dumpling" although all legs were missing after we boiled it. |
2000-2004 Misc Trips in China
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| The distant peak of the mountain is like a wolf-head! Henan, 2004. | Scorpion, kin of spiders. Henan, 2004. | The tent-like web of Uroctea (Family Oecobiidae). Henan, 2004. | A Uroctea spider with its web. Henan, 2004. | Beautiful waterfall. Henan, 2004. | Female (with eggsac) and male daddy-long-leg spiders (Family Pholcidae). Henan, 2004. | A female Pisaura (Family Pisauridae) with her huge eggsac. Henan, 2004. | Harvestmen (Order Opiliones), kin of spiders. Henan, 2004. | A pretty crab spider (Family Thomisidae). Henan, 2004. | A giant horned-beetle. Henan, 2004. | Processing specimens at night (Dong, Shaojie and Lian, Weiguang). Henan, 2004. | A female Cyclosa (Family Araneidae). Henan, 2004. | A female Tibellus (Family Philodromidae) guarding her eggsac. Henan, 2004. | A juvenile Portia is looking at you! Henan, 2004. | A female philodromid streching her legs and guarding her eggsac. Henan, 2004. | Beautiful view from top of mountain. Henan, 2004. | A flattened hersiliid on bark. Henan, 2004. | Harvestmen (Order Opiliones), kin of spiders. Henan, 2004. | A cute crab spider (Family Thomisidae). Henan, 2004. | A mygalomorph spider. Guangxi, 2004. | A crab spider (Family Thomisidae). Guangxi, 2004. | A dotted tiny orb-web spider (Family Araneidae). Guangxi, 2004. | A flattened two-tailed spider (Family Hersiliidae). With camouflage color, they are really hard to find on bark. Guangxi, 2004. | Tarantula nest. Guangxi, 2004. | A tarantula in its nest, with remnant exoskeleton of its food. Guangxi, 2004. | The giant tarantula out of its nest. Guangxi, 2005. | A female tarantula carrying her eggsac. Guangxi, 2004. | The silken retreat of a purseweb spider. Guangxi, 2004. | The purseweb spider (Family Atypidae) with its silken retreat. Guangxi, 2004. | A bolas spider, Ordgarius (Family Araneidae). Guangxi, 2004. | Tylorida (Family Tetragnathidae) on rock. Hainan, 2003. | A daddy-long-leg spider (Family Pholcidae). Hainan, 2003. | Beautiful sea shell display in Sanya. Hainan, 2003. | More sea shells... Hainan, 2003. | More sea shells... Hainan, 2003. | A tarantula in its nest. Hainan, 2003. | Opening to tarantula's nest. Hainan, 2003. | A mygalomorph spider. Hainan, 2003. | A spitting spider (Family Scytodidae) guarding her eggsac. Hainan, 2003. | A spitting spider guarding carrying her eggsac. Hainan, 2003. | Big trees in Jianfengling Park. Hainan, 2003. | A harvestman (Order Opiliones), kin of spiders. Hainan, 2003. | A giant Nephila on her web. Hainan, 2003. | A Araneus (Family Araneidae) hidding in leaves beside her orb web. Hainan, 2003. | A uropygid, kin of spiders, from beneath rock. Hainan, 2003. | A green female Tibellus (Family Philodromidae). Hainan, 2003. | Prof. Zhu, M. S. in the field. Hainan, 2003. | A tarantula. Hainan, 2003. | Scary huntsman spider (Family Sparassidae). Hainan, 2003. | A big spitting spider (Family Scytodidae). Hainan, 2003. | A cool mygalomorph spider under rottened tree trunk. Hainan, 2003. | Beautiful shells in a local gift store of Sanya. Hainan, 2003. | More shells in the local gift store of Sanya. Hainan, 2003. | A big female and a tiny male Herennia in Diaoluoshan Park. Hainan, 2003. | A female Arachnura with long tail. Hainan, 2003. | Scene near Diaoluoshan Park. Hainan, 2003. | Members of the expedition to Sichuan, Guizhou and Hubei, China, 2003: Min Wu, me, Jiangxin Qi and Zhishun Song (left to right). | Beautiful stream running in the forest. Sichuan, 2003. | Dr. Wu and I taking photos in the field. Sichuan, 2003. | Beautiful scene of Tibet, on the way to Chayu. Feng Zhang, Prof. Zhu and me (left to right). Tibet, 2002. | In field of Milin. Me, Prof. Zhu, Zhisheng Zhang and Feng Zhang (left to right). Tibet, 2002. | In Richeze, Dazhao Temple. Tibet, 2002. | In Lasa, Budala Palace. Mr. Fengxiang Liu (Hubei University), Prof. Zhu and me (left to right). Tibet, 2002. | In Lasa. Zhisheng Zhang, Prof. Zhu and me (left to right). Tibet, 2002. | In Shennongjia, Hubei, 2001. | Me collecting. Yunnan, 2000. | Taking photos of a giant spider. Yunnan, 2000. | In Xishuangbanna. Feng Zhang, Prof. Zhu, Prof. Guiming Tang and me (left to right). Yunnan, 2000. |
Looking through these photos always brings me back into jungles, where there are trees, birds and of course, lots of lovely spiders......