Life as a Spider

All creatures including the spider have to protect themselves, feed and reproduce.
It is the way they do this that is the fascination. Spiders as a group are voracious predators and are bound together by a unique life style that involves the use of silk.
There are two main strategies one which is known to all is the web builder the other lesser known is the hunter, one static and one mobile.
Reproduction and mating has often been associated with the female eating the male. This is exaggerated as some species can live briefly together in harmony. The task of the male is dependent on showing the female he is not food. The female spider has two main desires food and sex. Food is the most important and the male spiders use many fascinating ways of indicating they are not on the menu.