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Female spiders produce mating plugs to prevent unwanted sex from males
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Published Date:
Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:22:46 +0000
Blog Post Category:
Animals
Science & Nature
insects
National Museum of Natural History
spiders
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They observed that no plugs were ever formed during mating trials, but instead, females exposed to many males produced the amorphous plugs during the egg-laying process.
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