I feel really terrible about this. I thought this beautiful bastard's home was a stem of a plant or fungus or something as it was protruding above the soil surface. I had no idea what the hell it was but upon closer inspection realized it was her trap door unit woven out of threads. She didn't move after being disturbed. We left took photos and left her by her hole. We ruined Christmas for her.
A pair of burrows I believe to be construction of turret spider
Pope to Putah trail
Stabilized dunes of upper beach. Scraping the sand surface revealed an irregular silk-lined burrow with no obvious entrance. A penultimate male was found at the same location. Ramirez and Beckwitt's 1995 analysis of Lutica placed samples from this population (silver strand beach) within the undescribed species "B".
active at night, granite walls + veg
Body length = 7.6 mm
It was in my garden and tried to burrow into the dirt. It's about a nickel size. Could it be the pacific folding door spider