How Do Spiders Impregnate Theirself?
WouterSpiders are arachnids that can be found throughout the world. Among these are about 40,000 species. They live in individual web complexes and communal groups of up to 300 individuals. There are only a few species that can harm humans. However, they are important to plants because they prey on plant matter.
The female spider has a gonopore, which is a hardened plate on the underside of the abdomen in front of the ovaries. She also has a spermatheca, a small sack in which she stores sperm. She lays eggs in the spermatheca and fertilizes them with stored sperm. She may then deposit these eggs in an egg sac, which is a silken pouch.
The male spider has a pedipalp, or protruding mouth part, on the side of its head. The pedipalp is enlarged in males because of their copulatory organs. The palp is modified in a way that it can be used to deliver sperm to the female’s genital openings.
A sperm web is a small web built by a male spider to impregnate a female. The sperm web is created using silk from spigots in the epigastric silk glands of the male. This pheromone-coated silk web provides a conductive pathway for sperm.
The female’s reproductive organs are located on the ventral to booklung slits of her abdomen. The female epigynum is an oval to round plate, which is located in front of the gonopore. She can hold sperm from several different males in this receptacle.
