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Pedipalps have been adapted for feeding, locomotion, and/or reproductive functions.
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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.
How many pedipalps does a scorpion have?
9.
What arthropod has pedipalps and what are they used for?
Arachnids have pedipalps also called palps. They are two sensory feelers that look like very short legs attached to the front of the spider. They help taste food.
What are the appendages that scorpions and spiders use to capture and handle their prey?
Spiders and scorpions do not use the same method to catch prey. Scorpions often kill prey with venom, using the stinger at the end of their tail. However, they first grab the prey with their claws. They then raise their tail over their heads and sting the prey. Spiders, however, either spin webs to entrap their prey, ambush or hunt for their prey using venom to subdue them, or wait for their prey until it approaches them, killing them with a suprise attack.
What are The two large claws that scorpions have called?
Scorpion claws are called pedipalp.
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.
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.
How many antennas do spiders have?
None, Arachnids don't have antennae, insects do.
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.
How many body segments do garden spiders have?
A garden Spider Has 8 Legs
How come tarantulas are spiders if they have 10 legs?
They only have 8. The ones by the mouth that might look like legs are pedipalps- food handling feelers.
Spiders have a pair of appendages called?
Two pedipalps (which function more or less like arms) and behind them Eight legs And some spinnerets (that give silk sort of the way a cow's teats give milk) Spiders also have chelicerae, which are two short things that are tipped with fangs. Spiders do not have antennae.
