Spiders use chemicals to interact with conspecifics, heterospecifics and with their
environment. The focus of most past reviews on chemical communication in spiders has …

Sexual size dimorphism is one of the most striking animal traits, and among terrestrial
animals, it is most extreme in certain spider lineages. The most extreme sexual size …

Spiders are well known for using chemical, vibratory, tactile, and visual signals within mating
contexts. All spiders produce silk, and even in non-web building spiders, silk is intimately …

Sexual conflict arises from differences in reproductive interests between the sexes. We
allowed the female harvestman Phalangium opilio to sequentially mate with two different …

Highlights•Males of the spider T. fabricii bite females instead of courting.•Females are
inseminated by males after being immobilized by male bites.•Males also bind females with …

Simple Summary The role of personality in sexual selection has mostly been investigated on
vertebrate species, in which males provide direct benefits to females or offspring. Less is …

Understanding factors affecting male mate choice can be important for tracking the dynamics
of sexual selection in nature. Male brown widow spiders (Latrodectus geometricus) mate …

Highlights•Male Pisaurina mira wrap females with silk prior to and during copulation.•We
tested whether silk wrapping increases sperm transfer and fertilization success.•Males' …

Mating behaviours affect hypothalamic orexin/hypocretin neurons and vice versa. However,
activity of orexin neurons has not been recorded during mating before. We report an …

Mating-induced sexual inhibition has been studied extensively as an important facet of many
insect mating systems but remains little understood in spiders. Once mated, females of many …