flamingred: read a National Geographic article on the widow spider, I guess it is a mystery why the male spiders want to have sex with the mature female spiders, even though the mature female spiders tend to cannibalize their dates lol
The younger spiders are more fertile than their elders and mate more quickly without elaborate courtship but the males who survive with the elder female spiders tend to go back for more even if they are maimed and could die the second time,
One of the scientists study this phenomenon , not one of the males dies from mating with with the younger females but the males always went back to the mature female spiders even when more than half of them were eaten
One theory is , the mature females exude stronger sex pheromones, compensating for their lack of fertilitiy and youth
Gulab82: my eyes must be very tired....I read '....female spiders tend to go back for more even if they are maimed...' as ' female spiders tend to go back for more even if they are married....'
The younger spiders are more fertile than their elders and mate more quickly without elaborate courtship but the males who survive with the elder female spiders tend to go back for more even if they are maimed and could die the second time,
One of the scientists study this phenomenon , not one of the males dies from mating with with the younger females but the males always went back to the mature female spiders even when more than half of them were eaten
One theory is , the mature females exude stronger sex pheromones, compensating for their lack of fertilitiy and youth