In spiders, size matters: Small males are more often meals

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 16:07 in Biology & Nature

Female spiders are voracious predators and consume a wide range of prey, which sometimes includes their mates. A number of hypotheses have been proposed for why females eat males before or after mating. read more

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