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Published online 25 June 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030623-4
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Spiders go from wed to dead
Males self-destruct to keep their mates faithful.
The male orb-weaving spider self-destructs during mating. By dying while still joined to a female, his corpse forms a kind of chastity belt, say ecologists.
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