alt Hacker NewsCoffee 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...
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Lio • today at 1:43 PM
Obligatory reference to this classic wildlife film from the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa.
It's almost unbelievable.
johnmaguire • today at 12:52 PM
More than anything this seems like a good reminder that spiders aren't human.
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Salient point:
Caffeine is a chemical that plants evolved multiple times independently as an insecticide.