redback spider mating

redback spider

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Pets & Animals

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• redback
• spider

[svenypoodles]

@TheGrimReaver You wouldn't happen to go to bu would u

[crystalnickjonas]

it ate him lol

fuckin bitchh

[prodijoeyandadam]

I just moved to Australia. I'd shit myself if I saw something like that!!

[TheGrimReaver]

@cacoseraph Actually, what's different about the Redback spider, is the male actually TRIES to get himself eaten. The reasons for this are several:

1. Males that are being eaten can mate for twice as long as those who aren't.

2. Females who eat their first mate are very unlikely to mate again, allowing the eaten male to have a larger number of offspring.

[VioletteEstrella]

I have this science project on the Redback spider T^T THIS IS JUST DISTURBING DX I HATE THIS PROJECT lol

[cacoseraph]

@jareddclark

meh, unless this species of Latrodectus is wildly different than most, that doesn't happen all that often. it happens a bit in captivity, but usually more because the males can't get away from the female as easily as they would in nature than anything. i know ppl who have have a higher % of tarantula males get eaten than widows

[jareddclark]

@cacoseraph

The female eats the male after copulation. So in a way, yeah, he did end up stuck inside her.

[suki886]

@renekenshin6573 all female spiders are a lot bigger than male spiders

[renekenshin6573]

wow now that's a huge ass female spidy

[hazeli1313]

Wow, thanks for posting this. I've been trying to find something like this forever. I'm researching this type of black widow for a book I'm writing, and the mating ritual is kind of important. So yeah... gross, but thanks so much!

~Sunny