Spider mites engage in a bizarre mating ritual that has never been observed before in any animal species.
When male spider mites are ready to mate, they strip off the skin of maturing females as part of a freakish mating ritual.
"The males will guard the females for hours," study co-author Peter Schausberger, a zoologist and professor in the Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna, told Live Science."The males are able to recognize when the premature females start molting because their exuvia [old, outer skin] turns silvery as air lodges between it and the new skin."
"It only takes a couple of seconds for copulation," Schausberger said."This guarding behavior is high in energy and time, so the males want to ensure that another male doesn't take over a female." Interestingly, the researchers discovered that at times the female spider mites would"undress" themselves when it came time for them to molt. However, the females pulled off the skin beginning from their heads, whereas the males would remove the hind part of the skin first.
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