It’s all about the chemistry
Dec 16, 2021
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heromones in male spiders’ silk-wrapped ‘gifts’. Males of the gift-giving nursery-web spider silk-wrap prey and offer it to females during courtship. During their experiments, scientists found that females were more likely to accept ‘gifts’ covered in unwashed silk, suggesting the presences of silk-borne chemicals influence female behaviour.
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