Spider cannibalism is the act of a spider consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food. It is most commonly seen as an example...

condition. A study on the Chinese mantis found that cannibalism occurred in up to 50% of matings. Among spiders, Dolomedes triton females in need of additional...

Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom...

and sexual cannibalism in raft spiders". Animal Behaviour. 111: 49–55. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.10.013. S2CID 54282825. "Sexual cannibalism and population...

own mating partners Spider cannibalism – Spiders consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food Cannibalism (album), 1978 compilation...

prevalence of sexual cannibalism, a behaviour in which the female eats the male after mating, has inspired the common name "widow spiders". This behaviour...

The redback spider is one of only two animals known where the male has been found to actively assist the female in sexual cannibalism. In the process...

Pekár, Stano; Schneider, Jutta M. (April 2011). "Sexual cannibalism in the European garden spider Araneus diadematus: the roles of female hunger and mate...

PMID 26925338. Elgar, Mark (1991). "Sexual Cannibalism, Size Dimorphism, and Courtship Behavior in Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneidae)". Evolution. 45 (2): 444–448...

bugs and moth caterpillars and adults), they also prey heavily on spiders. Cannibalism does occur from time to time, in the form of females feeding on males...

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that...

entrances. Florian and Diana Schnös discovered cannibalism within the species of giant huntsman spiders in a cave near Vang Vieng in Laos. Female individuals...

living alien costume in The Amazing Spider-Man #252 (May 1984), with a full first appearance as Venom in The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (May 1988). The Venom...

Nephila is a genus of araneomorph spiders noted for the impressive webs they weave. Nephila consists of numerous species found in warmer regions around...

and pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism of courting males. In order to both evade predation and capture prey, these spiders are also able to dive into...

commonly known as the Pennsylvania funnel-web spider or the Pennsylvania grass spider, is a species of spider in the family Agelenidae. The common name comes...

"Family Affects Sibling Cannibalism in the Black Widow Spider, Latrodectus hesperus: Sibling Cannibalism in Black Widow Spiders". Ethology: no. doi:10...

but widow spiders are also used in research on spider silk and sexual biology, including sexual cannibalism. Anelosimus are also model organisms, used for...

The Kaira spider uses a pheromone to attract moths and catches the insects with a basket formed from its legs. Spiders perform cannibalism under a range...

alternative version of Spider-Man is Pestilence, a Horseman of Apocalypse. He has six arms, poisonous fangs, and engages in cannibalism. In the X-Men Forever...

behavior may contribute to reducing cannibalism by siblings. Right after hatching, the hatchlings of the desert spider Stegodyphus lineatus rely solely upon...

widow, brown button spider, grey widow, brown black widow, house button spider or geometric button spider, is one of the widow spiders in the genus Latrodectus...

Dolomedes tenebrosus or dark fishing spider is a fishing spider found in the United States and Canada. It is able to bite humans but will run from people...

2015. Mark A. Elgar (1991). "Sexual cannibalism, size dimorphism, and courtship behavior in orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae)". Evolution. 45 (2): 444–448...

Argiope argentata spider engages in sexual cannibalism, during or after copulation, without fail. The act of sexual cannibalism amongst A. argentata...

Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions and ticks. The word "arachnophobia" comes from the Greek words arachne and...

reproductive fitness. In nursery web spiders, females are known to frequently engage in sexual cannibalism. While sexual cannibalism is assumed to grant a greater...

JSTOR 3566748. S2CID 86038838. Morse, Douglass H. (2011). "Cannibalism within nests of the crab spider Misumena vatia". Journal of Arachnology. 39 (1): 168–170...

for spiders, they are subsocial at this stage: They remain together for about a month, but do not cooperate in prey-capture. The amount of cannibalism correlates...

The genus Argiope includes rather large spiders that often have a strikingly coloured abdomen. These spiders are distributed throughout the world. Most...