{"id":904,"date":"2003-07-01T12:14:25","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/01\/spider-sex-suicide-pact\/"},"modified":"2003-07-01T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2003-07-01T16:14:25","slug":"spider-sex-suicide-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/01\/spider-sex-suicide-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider Sex Suicide Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a136'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/accounts\/argiope\/a._aurantia$narrative.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/spider.jpeg\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/accounts\/argiope\/a._aurantia$narrative.html\">Argiope Aurantia<\/a><\/strong>, an orb-weaving spider, invariably<br \/>\n        dies spontaneously during copulation, according to a study published<br \/>\n        last week in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk\/biol_lett\/\">Royal<br \/>\n        Society&#8217;s Biology Letters.<\/a> The researchers speculate that the male&#8217;s<br \/>\n        dead body acts as a temporary chastity belt, preventing the female from<br \/>\n        mating again and giving his<br \/>\n      sperm time to fertilize her eggs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/182\/science\/All_for_love%2B.shtml\">Why didn&#8217;t I think of that?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argiope Aurantia, an orb-weaving spider, invariably dies spontaneously during copulation, according to a study published last week in the Royal Society&#8217;s Biology Letters. The researchers speculate that the male&#8217;s dead body acts as a temporary chastity belt, preventing the female &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/01\/spider-sex-suicide-pact\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}