Comment by randerson
8 hours ago
Coffee can do strange things to animals. There's a study where NASA gave various drugs to spiders to see how it affected their webs[0]. Coffee had a stranger effect on the web than marijuana.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210327150247/https://arachnidl...
Salient point:
Caffeine is a chemical that plants evolved multiple times independently as an insecticide.
More than anything this seems like a good reminder that spiders aren't human.
And that can be easy to forget in this fast paced world.
what about spiderman?
Obligatory reference to this classic wildlife film from the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa.
It's almost unbelievable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2HipedgM3I