In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the sex ...

The wall-pore sensilla are located on the upper part of the male’s legs (close to the body), areas that hardly come in contact with the surface when spiders walk, capture preys or mate. This is ...

The study looked at two types of sensory hairs called sensilla on spiders: ones with a single pore at the tip, and others with lots of pores in the wall of the hair shaft. For the wasp spider ...