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He reaches them finally, and passes his sperms. Male spiders do not mate directly via their sexual organs. Male spiders have no penis. Before they start looking for the females, they make a little web, into which they release some sperms. They suck up those sperms into the ends of their palps, which, in the run of evolution, have developed thick ends with a complicated inner structure. You can always distinguish a male spider by its big palp ends, that sometimes make the males look as if they are wearing mittens. They put their sperms into the female sexual opening via their palp ends, which is what is just happening in this picture. |
