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Apparently, drug-use affects the way spiders spin their webs.
Different drugs had different effects on the shapes of the web. In high doses, almost every drug resulted in highly irregular webs. But at carefully chosen lower doses, there were some interesting differences. For example, under the influence of caffeine, the webs were vertically shorter but horizontally wider, as spiders made larger angles between the radial spokes of the web. The most striking was the effect of LSD-25. Yes, LSD. This is the only drug which resulted in webs being more carefully weaved and more perfect than the controls.
-- Bora Zivkovic
And thus spiders and their webs are used to see what kind of pesticides are being used in partiuclar fields and orchards. Funny thing about that LSD though, huh?
Different drugs had different effects on the shapes of the web. In high doses, almost every drug resulted in highly irregular webs. But at carefully chosen lower doses, there were some interesting differences. For example, under the influence of caffeine, the webs were vertically shorter but horizontally wider, as spiders made larger angles between the radial spokes of the web. The most striking was the effect of LSD-25. Yes, LSD. This is the only drug which resulted in webs being more carefully weaved and more perfect than the controls.
-- Bora Zivkovic
And thus spiders and their webs are used to see what kind of pesticides are being used in partiuclar fields and orchards. Funny thing about that LSD though, huh?
