For jumping spiders, blood perfume is sexy
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 17:21
in Health & Medicine
Dining on bloodsucking mosquitoes, the jumping spiders are in a roundabout way feeding on blood. It now turns out this vampire-by-proxy diet is sexy for the arachnids.
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