I spent my morning trying to convince some spiders to mate. It didn’t go well. I wrote it up for my Patreon.
No spider photos, if you don’t like that, and I made it publicly readable, so check it out.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Could be the males are suffering from performance anxiety.
A prom without photos? Or pregnancies? I think the metaphor may be wrong.
All the spiders remained 100% sober, too.
Are the spiders that you breed finally used for an experiment of some sort? If so, can you say something about it? If not for an experiment, then for something else?