Australia’s Scary Spiders
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Spider Mating: The Weird and Gruesome Reality
Male spiders do not have a penis, but a genital opening/nMales build a tiny sperm web and transfer sperm onto it before using their legs to take up the sperm/nMale spiders search for a female and insert one of their legs into the female genital opening to transfer sperm/nFemales may eat males after the first mating, and in some cases, even after the first copulation/nIn some spider families, males break off bits of their genitals during copulation
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