eli5- Why do insects and arachnids like a praying mantis and spiders kill the one they mate with?

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eli5- Why do insects and arachnids like a praying mantis and spiders kill the one they mate with?

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Food. The ones that killed had mated and now got themselves a small cache of food too…and they did better than the ones who did not kill their mate.

So eating the mate became a thing.

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