TORONTO, October 22, 2009 — New research shows that male suitors of a female cannibalistic spider risk facing a premature death unless they perform an adequate courtship lasting a minimum of 100 ...

Female Australian redback spiders have unique ways of controlling who fathers their offspring, Canadian researchers say. Lindsay Snow and Dr Maydianne Andrade of the University of Toronto report that ...

Quick Take Achieving survival after a Redback bite once required 1 specific intervention to prevent a fatal outcome. The ...

FEMALE redback spiders want a bloke who can last longer and some males let their rivals do all the spadework before making their move, according to research into the arachnids' love life. Redback ...

Big males outperform smaller ones in head-to-head mating contests but diminutive males make ten times better lovers because they're quicker to mature and faster on their feet, a new study of redback ...

SOME of Australia’s most dreaded creatures are about to come out for the summer. This is what you should know ahead of time. We’re especially warned to be on the lookout for potentially deadly redback ...

Sexual conflict has been shown to shape many behaviors in the reproductive context, such as the duration of copulation, across a broad taxonomic range. In spiders, copulation duration is one of the ...