Reproduction
The much smaller males scamper from flower to flower in search of females and are often seen missing one or more of their legs. This may be due either to near misses by predators such as birds or to fighting with other males.
When a male finds a female, he climbs over her head over her opisthosoma onto her underside, where he inserts his pedipalps to inseminate her.
The young reach a size of about 5 mm by autumn and spend the winter on the ground. They molt for the last time in May of the next year.
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