Yes, the title "Lots of Eggs" is appropriate ... but I miss read it as "Lots of Legs" because my Mind/Eye saw that. Big mama and her little boyfriend who eventually will be eaten.

The article discusses how the male avoids being cannibalized after mating... we humans males can take lessons from nature.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-spiders-black-widows-cannibals

Interesting find, and interesting shot dnote627

Thanks to dnote627 for the fine shots [are there babies below?], and Donald dpullum for the link on Widow mating – very interesting to me! Just a small problem – it reverses the captions: photo #3 (“The male brown widow (pictured)”) is actually an immature female, and photo # 4 (“A female brown widow tends to her web.”) is the male, note the enlarged pedipalps. (It happens!)
Would that nature be so easily explained. Other factors are also in play: a hungry female may lay less eggs and experience more egg mortality, so the meal may be important to BOTH partners’ contribution to posterity; as females may lay 10+ egg sacs from only one mating, she may weather a paucity of males, but evenso, added matings may strengthen the contribution of the last sacrificial male, especially if she is biased by a tasty dessert; it does mention that a male has a very slight chance of encountering a second female (exception possible for Browns), so best to keep the pregnant female healthy rather than die without further issue anyway; where food is abundant, males often take up residence in a far corner of a female’s web – in 13 webs along a sidewalk on one block in CA, 7 had resident males, one even had two! And more, I’m sure.

Yes, the title "Lots of Eggs" is appropriate ... but I miss read it as "Lots of Legs" because my Mind/Eye saw that. Big mama and her little boyfriend who eventually will be eaten.

The article discusses how the male avoids being cannibalized after mating... we humans males can take lessons from nature.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-spiders-black-widows-cannibals

Interesting find, and interesting shot dnote627