Male dark fishing spiders found to die spontaneously after mating
Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 08:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Behavioral biologists at the University of Nebraska have found that male dark fishing spiders become immobile immediately after mating and die a short time later. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the team describes the mating behavior of the spiders and notes that the male dies spontaneously without assistance from the female.