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Fruit Fly - Anastrepha anomala

Fruit Fly Project Work in progress - 2008/2009 Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS3 & CS4 This is the final result of compositing the images on the previous page. In order to create an image like this, it is necessary to mask the parts of the image not wanted, and to clean up the parts I did want. This often involves removing out of focus portions in the background, pins and labels, lots of dust particles, and scales from moths and butterflies that are acquired when collecting the specimens. Often repair must be made for tears, holes, and other anomalies. Then the images are combined into what is called a habitus or presentation image in scientific illustration. In this case it is a dorsal habitus, on the next page is a lateral habitus. It may take most of a day to accomplish this task, and rarely do I get more than two of these done in a day. These composited images will be the standard used for identification, and they will have been approved for that purpose by Dr. Allen Norrbom of the Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, the scientist for whom I am doing this project.

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