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 Arachnid's relationships and mating traditions are usually the female is larger and doesn't care about the size of the male and after the male is used to fertilize the female's eggs the male is devoured by the female 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 female eating the male, the male actually cannibalizes the female. Not every time does the male devour the female, there is a behavioral effect that increases or decreases the likelihood of the female being eaten. 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].
+Yet most of these are irrelevent to the water spider. The water spiders are much different since instead of the female being larger, it is the male spider who tends to be bigger than the female. After mating, rather than the female eating the male, the male actually cannibalizes the female. Not every time does the male devour the female, there is a behavioral effect that increases or decreases the likelihood of the female being eaten. 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].
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