View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Certain orb-weaving spiders have developed a catapult-like mechanism to spring to safety and avoid sexual cannibalism, an international research ...
A female dark fishing spider (left) and its male counterpart ... of Nebraska-Lincoln and Gonzaga University has found that this cannibalism can benefit the male's offspring.
The careful nurturing in a biosecure breeding facility ensured the spiders’ survival and prevented cannibalism among the young. The raft spider, once widespread in Western Europe, plays a vital ...
No wonder they’re called widow spiders. To get sex with an older ... Not one of the males that mated with the youngest females died from cannibalism—but more than half those that mated with ...