{"id":750,"date":"2003-07-01T03:52:41","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T03:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:35","slug":"all-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"all for love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sex among the arachnids isn&#8217;t particularly  romantic to the human eye: female spiders routinely attempt to munch on  their mates during or after copulation. And it makes sense: The females  need the extra nutrition for their offspring-to-be. Most males try to  escape this dire fate, but not the male of the species <em>Argiope aurantia.<\/em> This orb-weaving spider invariably dies spontaneously during  copulation, according to a study published last week in the Royal  Society&#8217;s <em>Biology Letters.<\/em> Experiments by Matthias Foellmer and Daphne  Fairbairn at the University of California at Riverside show that death  is triggered immediately upon insertion of the second of the male  spider&#8217;s two sex organs, resulting in a seizure that stops his heart  within minutes. The researchers speculate that the male&#8217;s dead body acts  as a temporary chastity belt, preventing the female from mating again  and giving his sperm time to fertilize her eggs. The female is  completely innocent in her Romeo&#8217;s death and she still gets to eat his  dead body, with no guilt involved. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 7\/01\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex among the arachnids isn&#8217;t particularly romantic to the human eye: female spiders routinely attempt to munch on their mates during or after copulation. And it makes sense: The females need the extra nutrition for their offspring-to-be. Most males try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=750\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}