Water spider: Difference between revisions

Arachnid's relationships and mating traditions are usually: the female is larger and doesn't care about the size of the male, after the male is used to fertilize the female's eggs the male is devoured by the female because the mental mindset of "his job is done, i'm hungry" and such.  

Yet most of these are irrelevent to the water spider. the water spiders are much different since instead of the female being the bigger, it is the male spider who tends to be bigger than the female. After mating, rather than the femal eating the male, the male actually cannibalizes the female. Not every time does the male devour the female though, there is actually a behavioral effect that increases or decreases the likelihood of the female being cannibalized. If the female avoids the larger, superior male, the chance of getting eaten is high. [[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7088/is_3_33/ai_n28320550/ 4]]