Male Nursery web spiders bring a gift to the female they fancy, sometimes a fly or some other nice meal item...
and proceed to um, take a slice🤭 while she unwraps her gift. 70% of male spiders bring fake gifts made from old insect parts and seeds wrapped in silk. Seems a bit risky considering she might eat him.🤔 So even spiders can be cheap.😂
A paltry gift indeed, but not all spiders are so selfish and stingy. The male of many other species will offer [b]himself[/b] be eaten by his mate as soon as he has completed the business of mating, and in many cases she'll pay his gift forward by allowing her babies to eat her.
