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randerson 3 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...

RajT88 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Salient point:

Caffeine is a chemical that plants evolved multiple times independently as an insecticide.

johnmaguire 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

More than anything this seems like a good reminder that spiders aren't human.

burnte 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And that can be easy to forget in this fast paced world.

Lio 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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