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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.Got a minute?

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Island View Beach, in British Columbia, has all the makings of a perfect summer outing: great views, seclusion, sand dunes and driftwood.

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There's just one minor detail: That driftwood?

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It hosts two to three black widow spider webs per square meter.

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"To some people a beach full of black widows sounds like a nightmare, but to me it's awesome and it's not scary at all."

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Catherine Scott studies spider behavior at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.

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And in case you're wondering: "I've never been bitten by a black widow and I'm not at all concerned about being bitten by a black widow."

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Scott's research brought her to Island View Beach, to study the mating habits of black widow spiders.

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The basics are this: "If you're a male black widow your goal in life is to find a female and mate with her and father as many of her offspring as possible."

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Achieving that goal includes some architectural alterations by the males during their several hours of courtship,

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they snip the female's web to pieces, and then bundle the tattered web in their own silk.

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Scott and her colleagues found that webs treated this way don't attract other prowling males the same way an intact web does.

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Meaning "it's not so much the best male, but the first male to arrive that will win, if he's able to quickly find a female and reduce her web."

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And the reason this tactic works?

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The researchers say females encode pheromones, like chemical "personal ads," in their webs, advertising their age, hunger level and mating status.

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And the first-arriving male's craftsmanship may obscure that information, causing other suitors to pass her by.

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The study is in the journal Animal Behaviour.

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Wondering about the post-coital fate of the males?

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Scott says it's a common misconception that black widows always feast on their mates.

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Males can and do mate with multiple females.

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And besides, black widow females advertise right on their webs how hungry they are.

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So let no male claim that his desire caused him to lose his head.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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