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. 2009 Nov 19;9:62. doi: 10.1673/031.009.6201

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Figure 3. — Composite showing (right) Scytodes thoracica and its highly organized spit produced as two zig-zag patterns, one from each fang; and showing (left) the enlarged spit pattern produced during one expectoration episode by one left chelicera/fang. The spit patterns were collected on microscope slides and visualized via DICM imaging. The straight line connecting the spider to the spit pattern was added in Photoshop, but it represents a strand of silk that often appears in just that way just after a spitting episode.