Figs 14–18 in The life and times of Africa's First Lady of Arachnology, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman

Figs 14–18. (14) Group photograph from the 15th International Congress of Arachnology, held at Badplaas in 2001, which was organised under the leadership of Ansie (arrow); (15) Ansie spending some time with fellow delegates at the Badplaas congress: from left to right, Jan Bosselaers, Seppo Koponen, Suresh Benjamin and Pekka Lehtinen; (16) The South African contingent at the 17th International Congress of Arachnology, held in Brazil in 2007: from left to right, Lorenzo Prendini, Ansie, Leon Lotz, Charles Haddad and Stefan Foord; (17) Ansie, Charles Griswold and Astri Leroy share a lighter moment at the congress dinner of the 10th Colloquium of the African Arachnological Society, Rhemardo, 2011; (18) Ansie bids farewell to colleagues at a party held in her honour at the Plant Protection Research Institute in Pretoria in 2013. Photographs courtesy of Leon Lotz (14), Robin Lyle (15, 18), Charles Haddad (16) and Astri Leroy (17).