
Males offer NUPTIAL FOOD GIFTS to females — capture a prey item, wrap it in silk, present to the female before mating. Female consumes the gift during mating.

Males offer NUPTIAL FOOD GIFTS to females — capture a prey item, wrap it in silk, present to the female before mating. Female consumes the gift during mating.

Bed bugs reproduce by 'traumatic insemination' — the male stabs his hardened genital structure directly through the female's abdomen.

The Sateré-Mawé people of Brazil weave hundreds of live bullet ants into gloves and wear them as part of a manhood ritual — twenty separate sessions over years.

Diving bell spider males are larger than females — a reversal of the typical spider pattern, possibly because males spend more time swimming and need bigger air reservoirs.

Male jumping spiders perform species-specific dance choreographies so elaborate they're used to identify species.

Females are ovoviviparous — eggs hatch internally and they give birth to about 60 live nymphs at a time.

Females are 2-3× larger than males. Only females do the full flower mimicry — males are smaller and less elaborate.