And other stories from the stranger side of life
Male spider mites peel the moulting skin off newly mature females to make sure they are first in the queue to mate, according to a new study. “Living together in dense colonies can make for fierce competition in finding a mate”, noted CNN, “especially because female spider mites only use the sperm from the first male with which they mate”. Therefore, males have “developed strategies to improve their chances”, it said.
