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Spiders: Chastity belts stop cuckoos in the nest

03-05-2007 · EurekAlert!

Male wasp spiders place a chastity belt on their partner while copulating, thus preventing the females from further copulations. The tip of their genital breaks off during intercourse, blocking the sexual orifice of the lady spider. Biologists from the Universities of Bonn and Hamburg report on this amazing mechanism in the journal, Behavioral Ecology.

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