This series of images should not only be under Oxyopes, but should probably be right on the first info page for spiders, helping to explain the molting process. Great series!

Jim and J&J.

J&J, (and Jim, if you are interested) that info page is a mess! Two pages of primarily useless comments??? (not the editor contributed info) Velvet ants?
It might be useful if editors had the ability to remove comments. There are several other spider info pages I noticed with irrelevant images and comments.
Thoughts?

that guide pages not accept comments. We're certain there is a topic in the forums somewhere about this. It seemed that Troy was not ready to make that change and John is just settling in at BugGuide and we don't think he is ready to make any changes until he's been a part of BugGuide longer. We would certainly support the idea of either no comments on a guide page, of a small number of trusted editors being given the authority to delete comments. We think BugGuide could be made more focussed and less cumbersome to use by the removal of plenty of extraneous noise. Please don't reply to this comment and we'll see if we can delete it ourselves in a day or so. It clearly doesn't help spider ID in any way for it to be on this page!