Social signals stop young labyrinth spiders from hunting their siblings even when they are starving. However, the ...

A spider species eat their siblings as soon as they die but tolerate each other when they are alive, suggesting a mysterious ...

The peacock jumping spider, also known as Maratus volans, has earned a reputation as the world’s cutest spider. This furry arachnid is a friend to all, and it has the dance moves to prove it. While ...

Listen to audio highlights from this interview. Poisonous spiders, sexual cannibalism, adaptive suicide—biologist Maydianne Andrade jokes that her research makes for good cocktail party ...

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 ...

Female Asian hermit spiders gobble up their partners after mating, so males detach their penises and sometimes offer up an ...

Still, sexual cannibalism is common enough among mantids and other creatures (including some spiders, scorpions, crickets, grasshoppers, and beetles) that evolutionary theorists are forced to ...

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 ...