Spiders know to use gifts to flirt

Every guy knows that women are hard to resist expensive gifts beautifully packed. In the world of spiders, the girls also fall easily when receiving gifts wrapped carefully from males.

A female spider species Nursery web.Photo: spiderzrule.com.

Nursery web spider belongs to family Pisauridae . They have quite similar appearance to wolf spiders but can carry eggs wrapped with mouth and mount (while in many other species, the eggs are wrapped tightly with the spinnerets). When the standard egg hatches, the spider's mother will spread a layer of silk outside to protect it.

Insect experts from the University of Edinburgh (UK) found that males of the Nursery web often expressed affection with a piece of food carefully wrapped in silk. The longer the female spider opens the gift, the longer the "rain cloud" between them.

Dr. Ed Sykes, a scientist at the University of Edinburgh, believes that little money guys can learn a lot from spiders.

'The message that spiders want to send to men is: Don't worry about the true value of the gift, but wrap it carefully and beautifully. In my opinion, boys should be more concerned about time than money in their efforts to find a partner , 'he said.

According to Sykes, most people believe that males crave more sex. But he asserts that, in the world of spiders, the level of mating passion of females is much greater.

'That fact helps us explain why female spiders always use sex to test the ability of male spiders. The males can make them feel the most satisfied are the largest, strongest, least sick and have the best genes' .