Summary: Eunuch Spiders Snap Off Their Own Testicles! Episode 26 by Sarah Chow (Click here to directly access the MP3) (Access the full text transcript) What if snapping off your testicles was the only way to save your life? This is the situations male orb web spiders face every time they mate with their female counterpart! Listen to the podcast find out more… Image of male orb web spider with red box showing palp (aka genitals) snapped off. For more information: Male spiders sacrifice their genitals to fertilise big hungry females Orb web spiders or orb-weavers: Family Araneidae Sarah Chow is a recent graduate of the Banff Science Communication program and enjoys bringing the humour into science one podcast at a time. When not writing in her blog or frantically running around the lab doing experiments, you can find Sarah running the trails along the West Coast of British Columbia. You can visit Sarah’s blog www.sschow.com or follow her on twitter @sswchow.
