Videotapes of yellow garden spiders show that if a female doesn’t murder her mate, he’ll expire during sex anyway.
LOVE HURTS. The male yellow garden spider (right) pays the ultimate price for his first taste of sex. Foellmer
“As far as we know, it’s the first time anyone has shown males spontaneously dying during copulation,” says Daphne J. Fairbairn of the University of California, Riverside.
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