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Is the fecundity of male spiders a contributing factor to the occurrence of sexual cannibalism in some species?

Scientists have noticed that sexual cannibalism is exhibited by certain spider species more than others, especially in those that belong to genus Lacrodetus. Many have speculated that sexual...

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Do courtship behaviors affect the predatory behavior of spiders during the mating process?

I have read before that female spiders have been known to eat their mates after or during copulation. The most widely known species that exhibits this behavior is the black widow spider. Since...

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