Species-Coded for Your Convenience/Analysis: Difference between revisions

The opposite is true with insects, where females tend to be bigger and stronger and more likely to have distinguishing marks while males are tiny and nondescript. Because of this insects like mosquitoes, mantises, ants and bees are usually portrayed as male. Spiders seem to come out all right, though. It's become common knowledge that the female attempts to eat the male during/after coitus, so spiders tend to be portrayed as [[The Vamp|vamps]], especially the Black Widow, probably thanks to her very indicative name.

 

 

This trope can also be combined with [[Animal Motifs]] and [[Transformation Conventions]]. See also [[Animal Stereotypes]], [[Female Feline, Male Mutt]], and [[Gender Equals Breed]].