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Pedipalps have been adapted for feeding, locomotion, and/or reproductive functions.

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Do spiders or scorpions have larger pedipalps?

Scorpions have larger pedipalps becasue they do!


Are the tube thats carry oxygen in arthropods are called pedipalps?

NO. Pedipalps are adapted for handling food and for sensing.In male spiders, pedipalps are further modified to carry sperm during reproduction.


Directly behind the chelicerae spiders have a pair of appendages called?

pedipalps


How many antennie do spiders have?

Spiders are not insects and do not have antennae like insects. Outside of their fangs they have pedipalps which serve a similar function.


What is an arthropod that has no atennae?

Spiders are arthropods that do not have antennae. They rely on other sensory organs, such as their pedipalps and hairs, to detect their surroundings and prey.


How does a boy or a girl spider look?

Masculines (adults) have the last segment of the pedipalps bigger (compared to adult feminines of the same species, or subspecies) and flat, transformed in copulatory structures, while feminine ones doesn't.


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.


Do arachnids have male reproductive organs?

Yes, though none have a penis. In general sperm is produced in the genitalia at the underside of the abdomen, and the male arachnid transfers that to his pedipalps (in the case of spiders at least); pedipalps are the frontmost pair of appendages next to the mouthparts. Later, he inserts his pedipalps into the female's genitalia on her underside and mates this way.


In which group are the pedipalps modified for reproduction male or felmale spider?

In male spiders, the pedipalps are modified for reproduction. These specialized structures are used to transfer sperm to the female during mating. The modifications often include a bulbous shape or other adaptations that facilitate this process, distinguishing male pedipalps from those of females, which are not involved in reproduction.


How many antennas do spiders have?

None, Arachnids don't have antennae, insects do.


How many body segments do garden spiders have?

A garden Spider Has 8 Legs


Are palps and fangs the same thing?

Nope - see the two pictures attached. The fangs are used to inject venom into a spiders 'victim' The palps (or pedipalps) perform different functions. They're used to signal a potential mate, as 'feelers' when the spider is moving, and as motion detectors when sat on a web waiting for prey.