Spiders Have the Weirdest Sacks

In spiders, we see this phenomenon of female gigantism. In some species, the females are like 20, 30 times the body size of the males. The male will find a female who doesn't have a male living in her web yet, and he'll ik, move himself in,. He's free loading. And what he does his entire life as he defends her web territory from other males. They do all kinds of weird stuff in many ways as a result of this differential size. So they all exhibit varying levels of courtship where the male courts the female, usually using a combination of acoustic signalling and visual signalling. Do you think there's any sort of a positional hierarchy here

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