Ondrej Michalek
Some male spiders skip the games or courtship dances during mating, opting to go on the attack instead.
“Spiders sometimes spend hours luring females to court them, but these guys just go and bite,” says Lenka Sentenská at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada.
Running crab spiders, a group containing more than 600 species, are found widely across Europe, Asia and Africa.
In April 2019, while working at Masaryk University in Czech Republic, Sentenská was studying the behaviour of one species – Thanatus fabricii – native to Israel. She realised males behaved oddly …
source: newscientist.com