Hey, Ispiritkin. I wouldn't know since I just found that on Youtube, but I've watched other spiders doing their mating thing and since the issue for the male is how to procreate without being consumed, what I've observed (and what I think that little jumping spider dance video also supports) is that the male does a kind of hypno-dance that mesmerizes the female into inertness. Most (all?) male spiders carry the sperm on what appear to be two, smaller front legs called pedipalps and they have to get pretty close to transfer it to the female. With luck, the female is too dopey to realize that her little love morsel has fled.
Ah, love. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is the potential mate a rubber spider (or plastic)? It seemed awfully > motionless. At that distance, would a spider be able to tell between > fake and real? > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" wrote: > > > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=D92AUXhYZ0M >
