“For instance, Pisaura mirabilis. During the nursery web spider’s amorous intercourse, the female eats a fly caught for her by the male. And the female Oecanthus niveux sucks the juice out of a special gland in the male tree cricket’s body. The female Lysotrocteisa myrmex eats food regurgitated by the male jumping spired straight out of his mouth—which, by the way, is how your human kiss developed, though two hundred million years later. Only people, as usual, have done away with the substantial part and left just the PR. Praying mantises simply take the most radical approach to the problem….”
