Talk:Silkfang/@comment-34245592-20180706051656

i wonder how these things mate. perhaps every silkfang we see is female, and the males are the size of normal bugs. perhaps they look like a fly with a swolen abdomen, like the size of a cherry. when the male finds a female, he crawls in her mating organ and his abdomen bursts open like a water balloon with sperm. the male oviously dies in this process, but now that the female is inceminated, she will lay around 100 eggs, each around the size of a bead. then theyl hatch into what looks like males, minus the swollen abdomens. the juvinile females will fly off, find a suitable location, shed their wings, and grow rapidly over the course of the next month. this newly matured female will then live another 10 years before she one day sheds her cords connected her to the territory and lays on her back, waiting for one last deposit of sperm. once that occurs she never lays the eggs, and they instead eat their way out of her body, so in death she provides her final brood with a first meal.