Courtship over

Posted by Jimmy G on Sat Oct 05, 2019 4:59 pm

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After courtship the male spider made the ultimate sacrifice by providing food for its mate and young.

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by Tom Whelan on Sun Oct 06, 2019 7:01 pm

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Nice photograph - and often the way the story ends for male spiders.

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by Cynthia Crawford on Tue Oct 08, 2019 4:00 am

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This certainly tells the story though a bit hard to discern what is what. That's pretty true of spiders for me-I don't know them well. Is the foreground white part the remains of the male?

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