0
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoFemale spiders are hungry. Their bodies need nourishment to support the eggs mating produces. The male spider would not be a help to his children any other way.
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
How do white tailed spiders breed?
White tailed spiders breeding ritual is similar to other spiders. The male spider must first bring the female spider food in order to mate with her or else she will eat him if he tries to mate with her.
What species of spider eat other spiders?
Many female spiders eat their counterparts following sexual activity and before eggs are laid to prevent the male from eating his offspring. Other spiders that consume large insects will eat other appropriately sized spiders. Specifically there are species that exclusively consume other spiders as their regular diet such as the Portia jumping spider, which is perhaps the smartest spider.
What spider eats what spider?
The black widow spider usually eats the male spider after they mate, unless they give the female a"gift which is something good to eat wrapped in silk. That is why they are called black widow spiders
Why do female spiders kill male spiders?
Female spiders have food on their minds almost all the time. They having mating as an objective part of the time. When they have mating on their minds that does not stop them from wanting to eat. Male spiders have several ways of identifying themselves as being of the same species as the female, so that she will let them approach to mate with her. Then most of them have their own ways of keeping the female from eating them as or after they mate. Some male spiders sacrifice themselves. Some female spiders sacrifice themselves to their babies after the babies hatch.Eating the male spider after mating gives the male spider's genes a better chance of survival. So, evolutionarily speaking, it is an advantage to the male to have his progeny get a good start in life. The same is true of the female. Spiders species often live for only once season anyway, so it may be unlikely that either males or females of some species will get a second chance at reproducing.So female spiders eat male spiders because they are hungry, but also perhaps because evolution has not found it expedient in some cases to give the males a good way out. In other cases, however, the males almost always are not eaten. Some female spiders even tolerate males to continue living with them.
Is spider solitary?
Spiders in general live alone. They will only join together for reproduction after which the male (smaller) will depart before the female can eat him. Spiders are cannibals and will eat a member of their own. Spiderlings will live with their mother until they reach a certain age and then they will set out on their own.
What is the roles of the female and male jumping spider?
U know female r more selfish than male. After makeing sex female spider thought that she is now powerful for live. No need male spidr. When female spider pregnant they could not go out for food. then they eat male spiders.
Do moths eat spiders?
Yes, anything then can catch in their web really, moths, butterflies, wasps, flies... the female spider may even eat the male spider...
How do white tailed spiders breed?
White tailed spiders breeding ritual is similar to other spiders. The male spider must first bring the female spider food in order to mate with her or else she will eat him if he tries to mate with her.
What species of spider eat other spiders?
Many female spiders eat their counterparts following sexual activity and before eggs are laid to prevent the male from eating his offspring. Other spiders that consume large insects will eat other appropriately sized spiders. Specifically there are species that exclusively consume other spiders as their regular diet such as the Portia jumping spider, which is perhaps the smartest spider.
What spider eats what spider?
The black widow spider usually eats the male spider after they mate, unless they give the female a"gift which is something good to eat wrapped in silk. That is why they are called black widow spiders
What species of female spider kills the male after mating?
The female spider is hungry; and since the male spider is nearby and he's probably weaker than the female, she eats him. Also if she kills the male spider, he won't eat her eggs when he gets hungry. +++ A bit tangled that, but I wonder if it is normal behaviour. For most web-spinning spider species, the females make and stay in the webs while the males roam around looking for food and mates. He visits a female in her web solely to mate, and may end up being eaten afterwards or might in fact simply die anyway (mating then dying is quite common among invertebrates). If he is eaten it's because he's there and a hearty meal necessary for making all those eggs.
Will a female spider eat a male spider?
The Black Widow spider will mate, and then eat her mate because they are stuck together.
Why do spider eat other spider?
Because if the female doesn't eat the male, then all the babies will die.
Do the male and female spiders look different?
Yes. Spiders have eight legs and two more, shorter, limbs at the very fronts of their bodies that are called "pedipalps." They are used the way we use our arms. However, male spiders use their pedipalps to impregnate their mates. The male pedipalp functions like a biological syringe. The male makes a little doily-like web on the ground, discharges semen onto that felt-like silken fabric, and then inserts the tips of its pedipalps into the drop of semen. The semen is sucked into the pedipalps, and later on the male spider inserts each pedipalp into the genital opening of the female spider and the semen is forced out of his pedipalps and into her reproductive system. Therefore, the pedipalps of male spiders are very different from those of female spiders. Male pedipalps have to be much bigger than those of female spiders. So if you see a spider with two pedipalps that are terminated by big roundish things, then that spider will be a male. In many species of spider the males are very much smaller than the females. All they have to do is to deliver a couple of small droplets of semen to the female. They don't have to produce hundreds of eggs, guard the eggs, guard the babies for a while after they have hatched, etc. So there is no particular biological reason for male spiders to be big. In fact, if they are small enough it may be very difficult for the female to catch them before or after intercourse, and since they are so small it may not even be worth the effort to catch them to eat them. So maybe that is the reason that in lots of spider species the males are much smaller than the females. In many spiders that have good vision because they are hunting spiders (e.g., lynx spiders, fishing spiders, wolf spiders, and jumping spiders), the males may look different from the females. Looking special helps ensure that the female will realize that this other spider is a male and not a female coming to try to kill her, and that this spider is a male of the female's own species. The male's special appearance is also involved in the elaborate dance that many species of hunting spiders use to identify themselves by species and then to "entrance" the female spider so that she will put aside thoughts of eating him and let him mate with her.
Why do female spiders kill male spiders?
Female spiders have food on their minds almost all the time. They having mating as an objective part of the time. When they have mating on their minds that does not stop them from wanting to eat. Male spiders have several ways of identifying themselves as being of the same species as the female, so that she will let them approach to mate with her. Then most of them have their own ways of keeping the female from eating them as or after they mate. Some male spiders sacrifice themselves. Some female spiders sacrifice themselves to their babies after the babies hatch.Eating the male spider after mating gives the male spider's genes a better chance of survival. So, evolutionarily speaking, it is an advantage to the male to have his progeny get a good start in life. The same is true of the female. Spiders species often live for only once season anyway, so it may be unlikely that either males or females of some species will get a second chance at reproducing.So female spiders eat male spiders because they are hungry, but also perhaps because evolution has not found it expedient in some cases to give the males a good way out. In other cases, however, the males almost always are not eaten. Some female spiders even tolerate males to continue living with them.
Is spider solitary?
Spiders in general live alone. They will only join together for reproduction after which the male (smaller) will depart before the female can eat him. Spiders are cannibals and will eat a member of their own. Spiderlings will live with their mother until they reach a certain age and then they will set out on their own.
What is a peacock spiders diet?
Peacock spiders eat baby crickets and "other small prey". In mating, the female may eat the male.
