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Black Widows Monogamy

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In this article, titled “Male Black Widows Strive for Mate’s Monogamy” by Christopher Intagliata through Scientific American. The research in the article was done by Catherine Scott, who studies the behavior of spiders for the British Columbian Simon Fraser University. She conducted her research at Island View Beach in BC, studying how Black Widows mate. Some basic knowledge is that the males of the species of the species want to find a mate and have as many possible children. However, these spiders have a habit of wanting their partners to “cling” to them, (like spider web, it’s funny). The basics of it are, when a female Black Widow makes her web she weaves chemically infused web, laced with pheromones. These hold lots of information including

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