How do you tell the sex of a Spider?

Answer 1

Squash it and see if eggs come out!

Answer 2

It is often difficult to sex a juvenile spider or spiderling since the reproductive structures have not developed yet. If you happen to have an adult or subadult spider (often called penultimate when it is one molt away from being mature), males and females of any spider species are generally pretty easy to tell apart. All spiders have short appendages at the front of their bodies called pedipalps. These structures generally look like legs except they are much shorter. In females they look the same as legs except shorter. In males, they are rounded or bulbous at the end and serve as copulatory organs. Males literally suck up sperm into their pedipalps (sort of like a pipette bulb) and begin searching for females. Also, female spiders are always bigger than the male-sometimes only slightly so, in other cases, up to 100 times larger. Males also tend to be more active and have proportionally longer legs and smaller abdomens than females. The majority of spiders (but not all) you find in your house crawling across the floor tend to be males since they are much more active and often travel great distances searching for females.

Answer 3

All spiders use a unique form of mating, in which the male transfers sperm to the female using specially modified appendages near the mouth, called pedipalps. Because of this, it is easy to tell what sex a spider is: Female spiders have pedipalps which look like short legs, whereas male pedipalps look like "boxing gloves".

Answer 4

sometimes the markings will be different.. google the type of spider you're looking for and you might find a good site that tells how to sex them. i know on a black widow, the female is the only one with the red markings.

Answer 5

Dear,

There must be two spider, the one that goes toward the other is the male spider.

Answer 6

The female spiders are traditionally larger than the males.

Answer 7

Give it a computer. If it looks up spider porn, it's male. If it gets into debt buying shoes for it's 8 feet, it's female.

LoL I don't know how to tell the sex of a spider, sorry.

Answer 8

Black Widows is real simple. The bigguns are nasty females physically. The males are little wimps. Talk about being nieve-after the male has his way with the female, she kills him. Fact.
Other spiders, I don't know. I don't have a clue of your sex for example.

Answer 9

Female spiders have pedipalps which look like short legs, whereas male pedipalps look like "boxing gloves".

Answer 10

Ask a Entomologist. (spider expert)

Answer 11

hm. heres my example directed at you


Are you a guy spider or a girl spider?