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Here is some new-ish info on a personal favourite family of spiders, the venomless spiders

Males from a species of venomless spiders have been found to push themselves away from females at high speed after mating

Males from the species Philoponella prominens have recently been observed in laboratory conditions flipping away from females after mating. Out of 155 individual males, the researchers observed 152 of them performing this action, with the others unable to do so and being consumed by their partner. The spiders were recorded catapulting away an average of 65.9 cm/s, with a top speed of 88 cm/s. Maximum acceleration averaged at about 201.7 m/s2. These spiders employed the hydralic systems in their front pair of legs to ush away from the female at high speeds, males were then observed to return to the female via a silk strand and mating repeatedly until the female becamame aggessive, after which the promtly dropped to the ground and ran off.