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Argiope ansuja
The male is much smaller than the female. After mating, the female kills the male. The male spider spins a web alongside the females web, known as the companion web. The female lays her eggs onto this companion web and wraps them up into a sac. This sac can hold from 400 to 1,400 eggs inside. The eggs hatch in autumn, but they remain locked inside until spring. The young spiders in the sac are cannibals, and they eat each other to stay alive — until they are strong enough to break through the sac walls.
Here in this pic you can see a male Signatre spider (Argiope ansuja) which is way smaller in size approaching a female(the large one). The 2nd pic shows the companion web just behind the female spiders web.
Spotted on Nov 20, 2011
Submitted on Dec 19, 2011
18 Comments
wow! great information and great photo :) thank you.
Thanks Blueidone and Karen!!
Great shot Atul!
Great capture of a interesting aspect of nature....I'm always amazed with the detail of their webs and their mating habits..thanks for sharing this pic with us :)
This is a great spotting! Please fill in the space with the scientific name from your notes. Thanks!
Lovely spotting and great info doc.
Oh wow! I just discussed this in my spider group on FB. SO COOL! I miss my spiders.
Thanks Marcel!!
too cool : )
Thanks Laurie!
Great pics and interesting info.
Atul, thanks for sharing such a useful information and a Fabulous photography.
This Is common with quite a few species of spiders ctsetan!!
Its a Murder mystery sachin!!
for more info check this one out http://scienceray.com/biology/zoology/th...
so it is common of female eating male in spider species..? i thought it was only for black widow spider. :)
Thanks Bong!!
Wow, very strange and interesting story,
Fantastic shot and spotting.