• @HaggunenonsOPM
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    11 year ago

    The females of one species even fakes the mating flashes of another species in order to attract and eat the males. These males carry a defensive steroidal pyrone that makes them be rejected as prey of a jumping spider, and when the females eat them, they acquire that defense.

    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.94.18.9723