The unkind act of butchering and eating your mate after sex, typified by the female black-widow spider and praying mantis, may make for healthier babies, new research suggests. The researchers found ...

Inbreeding isn’t worth dying for, even in a spider species where males routinely pay for sex with their lives. Sex is never safe for males of the species Argiope bruennichi, one of Europe’s common orb ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spiders such as this Argiope bruennichi sometimes adorn webs with zigzagging stabilimenta. (Pierluigi Rizzo (member of Aracnofilia ...

...if you are a spider. Sex for male orb web spiders (Argiope bruennichi) is a two shot affair since the act of mating destroys their genitalia. If they survive being eaten during their first ...