Spider sex causes spontaneous death

[oniq]

Sounds fun.... ..... ...

 

[eakers]

note to self: no spider sex.

 

[notfred]

Ok, that article was pretty disgusting.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: notfred
Ok, that article was pretty disgusting.

I agree, but for some strange reason I found myself wishing for pics...

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: MrPickins

Originally posted by: notfred
Ok, that article was pretty disgusting.

I agree, but for some strange reason I found myself wishing for pics...

This is a job for lirion!

 

[Wallydraigle]

That's some interesting stuff.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: lirion
That's some interesting stuff.

Yeah, it really is.

What I wonder is how they can tell if a spider's heart is beating or not. :Q

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: lirion
That's some interesting stuff.

Yeah, it really is.

What I wonder is how they can tell if a spider's heart is beating or not. :Q

I wondered that myself... Maybe sensitive sound equipment?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: MrPickins

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: lirion
That's some interesting stuff.

Yeah, it really is.

What I wonder is how they can tell if a spider's heart is beating or not. :Q

I wondered that myself... Maybe sensitive sound equipment?

REALLY sensitive sound equipment. :Q

 

[Wallydraigle]

Agriopes are usually pretty big, they might just be able to tell by sight under magnification.

 

[Anghang]

Originally posted by: MrPickins

Originally posted by: notfred
Ok, that article was pretty disgusting.

I agree, but for some strange reason I found myself wishing for pics...

LOL...me too!...morbid curiosity ...a video would be awesome....hehe

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: lirion
Agriopes are usually pretty big, they might just be able to tell by sight under magnification.

Ahh....

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: lirion
That's some interesting stuff.

Yeah, it really is.

What I wonder is how they can tell if a spider's heart is beating or not. :Q

Little itty bitty EKG's!

 

[Miramonti]

Some males do their best to escape their mate's post coital appetite while others, like the red back spider, accept their fate by somersaulting into the female's fangs

now THAT is whipped!!!

 

[brigden]

:camera:s?

 

[Descartes]

I guess hominid females aren't so bad after all.

 

[Yossarian]

"literally combining dinner and a date."

BWAHAHAH

 

[Bignate603]

But anecdotal reports that Argiope males were not eaten but died spontaneously during sex intrigued Foellmar and Fairbairn. So they observed more than 100 spider matings.

Ok, that's a bit sad...

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: eakers
note to self: no spider sex.

You're the female, you wouldn't die. You'd just have this dead guy stuck to you

 

[isaacmacdonald]

I'd be a spider monk.

 

[wfbberzerker]

spider sex is just that good.

 

[TuffGirl]

Originally posted by: Descartes
I guess hominid females aren't so bad after all.

Yeah you're lucky that after putting out, we don't devour you for a "post-sex snack."

My sig over at SWF reads "The best lover is one turns into a pizza at 4am." This spider sex article sheds a whole new light on that quote for some reason.

What I find particularly disturbing in this article is one of the spiders in the study tried to get it on with a dead mealworm, the "cross-species necrophilia." Ick.

 

[trulfe]

Originally posted by: klee58

Originally posted by: Descartes
I guess hominid females aren't so bad after all.

Yeah you're lucky that after putting out, we don't devour you for a "post-sex snack."
.

Guess they arent into oral sex

 

[Schadenfroh]

here is something to think about. what if the same thing occured with humans. and you had to choose between a life with no sex or sex and death...

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
here is something to think about. what if the same thing occured with humans. and you had to choose between a life on no sex or sex and death...

I think the human species would be doomed at that point.