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A Spider Species Exhibits a Strange Mating Ritual: Male Spiders Shed Female Skin as Part of Courtship.Scientists in Austria have discovered this eerie behavior for the first time while studying ...

If they do not leave quickly, the male orb-weaving spider will become a meal for the female after mating.Known scientifically as Philoponella prominens, the male of this orb-weaving spider species ...