Do Spider Exoskeletons Go Out Of Style? with Dr. Maydianne Andrade
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
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How Long Do Black Widows Live?
When a female is about a week away from becoming an adult, the black widows inside create all her genital apparatus. Males are so competitive that they have developed this competition to find females even earlier than before they become mature. And then when the female molts and becomes an adult, she doesn't need to mate at all. So it's like they've moved, everything's moved to an earlier stage. We also read that, you ta the lab takes care of 50 thousand spiders. Yes, yes, at it's how does this? We have this huge operation. A lot of them are like charlotte's web, kind of one year spiders. They're not typically living for
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