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Do larger spiders spin thicker webs?

Do male spiders spin webs?

  • I know the male and female mate, and the female eats the male... But can a male spider spin a web?

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    Well first off you can forget the myth that the female spider eats the male. Very occasionally in a handful of species the female will eat the male after mating, but it is the exception, not the rule, and it never occurs in most spider species. As for webs, most male spiders do indeed spin webs. In a small number of species the males are essentially parasitic on the female webs, hanging arund the edges eating insects that are too small to attract the notice of the much larger female.

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yes, i think your thinking of black widows. not all spiders kill their mates, and spinning a web is the way a spider obtains food, unless you are a wolf spider. so in order to live, a spider has to spin a web.

tomcat

As other answers have indicated, the female does not often eat the male after mating, though in at least one species it seems that she normally does. All male spiders that belong to web spinning species spin webs when they are juveniles. Some of them stop making webs when they mature and spend all their time hunting for a female to mate with. Many kinds of spiders do not spin prey- catching webs in either sex. All spiders use silk for some purpose, but not necessarily for catching prey.

mangidabx

No, the female does.

ginaforu5448

I think male and female spiders spin webs. The only difference i know in male and female spiders are that females are bigger.

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1 - Only in certain species (Black Widows most prominantely) does the female eat the male. 2 - In many species only the female spins webs (to help lay egg sacs later - Black and Gold Agriope, Many Orb Weavers) 3 - In MOST species that spin webs - both do.

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