I've been a practicing scientist since 1990, and it never ceases to amaze me just how much time it takes to pull together a journal manuscript. These two figures alone took about 16 hours (it's how I spent this weekend)--and that doesn't count the time spent practicing to get to the point that I could get this quality of images. Whew! Done!
These are the palps and epigyne of wolf spiders, documenting a new species.
Palps (male reproductive structures) of a spider showing three angles. It's a fuzzy bulb containing many complex structures with curves, points, and angles.
8 spider epigyne (female reproductive structures), each containing a central upside-down-T structure within an arch.
