It’s basically this way with a lot of spiders, let alone a plethora of other animal species. Would absolutely not surprise me to hear that this is the norm in the animal kingdom.
Black widow life
Submitted 5 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Even some mammals like hyenas have this kind of arrangement.
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 5 months ago
m3t00@piefed.world 5 months ago
no point in bulking up to only get eaten after sex
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You should see a male banana spider creeping. Looks like homeboy is coming up behind a dragon.
mhague@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Male wolf spiders may hang back and watch mating pairs from the shadows, learning how to successfully attract a mate. Just like us fr
Sabata11792@ani.social 5 months ago
I wish a goth girl would melt my insides.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You gotta love how traitors will justify anything they want to do by pointing at nature, but as soon as you use an example of females eating males as part of reproduction, then they will just argue.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Lionesses in heat will bite the nads of their male partner when he’s too tired to perform ( Narrator: She’s not satisfied even after he’s exhausted himself.)
This is actually a moment for banished males to be welcomed back into the pride, if temporarily.
Nature is just chock full of realities that don’t fit into the metaphors we want to make of it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 months ago
After hearing that mantises only eat their mate in captivity, I kinda wonder if the same is true of black widows.
TheTurner@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I saw a wild pair of mantids as a child and the female was definitely eating a male.
plyth@feddit.org 5 months ago
Well, where have you grown up? Are you sure you are free?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Some mantids can only copulate after their head has been eaten, their body still is doing the deed while beheaded.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Pretty weird kink.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not sure on the specifics, but I’ve dealt with my fair share of black widows. Their webs usually contain a shriveled up corpse of a male just kinda hanging about.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He died tho
Worth it
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
*though or *thoe
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ew, no
ch00f@lemmy.world 5 months ago
All loves have to die, of that there’s no help My favourite way to end ’em Is the orb-weaver spider’s, whose pedipalp Enters the female pudendum
Then dies on the spot, his corpse there still stuck Left for his rivals to curse it He would rather die than not get to fuck Personally, I reckon it’s worth it
Rooty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Man, that’s a blast from the past.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 months ago
This doesn’t usually end well for the simp nerd.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
“I can fix her!”
Yurgenst@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Doesn’t end well for the male spider either.
Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s ok, he is into vore.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nerds are not simpletons, the exact opposite in fact. You are not using that word correctly.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simp_(disambiguation)