Extra Future[Soon it will be we that they imitate][link].
[link]: http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/spider_mimics_ant_to_eat_spiders_and_avoid_being_eaten_by_sp.php “Spider mimics ant to eat spiders and avoid being eaten by spiders : Not Exactly Rocket Science”
Normally to inseminate a female you have to have some sex with that. You know, male and female sex organs doing their thing. Well:
>[Milan Rezic, an entomologist at the Crop Research Institute in Prague, has spotted a spider circumventing this problem by delivering sperm directly to the ovaries via holes that the males bore directly in the females’ abdomens.][link]
[link]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8023413.stm “BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Spider sex violent but effective”