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 ...

Mohammad Talukder at the University of Greifswald in Germany and his colleagues used electron microscopes and other tools to analyse the appendages of wasp spiders (Argiope bruennichi).

bruennichi spiders by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy ... we carefully mounted live male spiders under a microscope and poked a recording electrode into the base of single-wall ...