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Reproduction
The female spider has two ovaries where the eggs are stored. Courtship begins after the male has charged his palps (where sperm are stored in his feet) with his sperm. He abandons his regular habitat and concentrates very hard on finding a mate. The male and female meet when the female detects a smell on the male's old dragline.
The male holds his sperm in the spermathcae until he needs to fertilize his mates eggs. The male spider transfers the sperm into the female by putting his foot on a special place on her abdomen and the sperm goes through his foot and fertilizes the females eggs. The female lays about 300-800 eggs per sack. In some cases there will be two pink eggs in the sack, but this is
only true for some spiders. Their tarsal organ is used in insemination. Another way is, male spiders that make tubes and webs leave their snares to walk around idly. Then, each male spins their own little web called the "sperm web" and puts a tiny little bit of semen into it. Their sperm, called spermatozoa, form in their tubular testes. The sperm are then passed on to the median
gonopore. Sometimes after the female lays her eggs she will eat the mate to protect the babies because she is much bigger. To prevent this, males either lock fangs with the female, wrap her in silk, or present her with a silk wrapped meal.
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