BrettC

Hope this isnt a sial but this never fails to amuse me.

I think I first saw it in New Scientist magazine about 10 years ago but a quick google and hey presto.

The information that I would also have liked would have been rate of web production and construction when mr spider decided that he was happy with his handywork!

Something else I would have liked to know was how did the flies cope?

http://www.cannabis.net/weblife.html

ajm

Yes I remember when this was first published.... It's weird you posted it up because I was thinking about it only the other day actually whilst I was watching a garden spider weave its magic!

BrettC

Like wise

jods

I read that article as well. It was really quite interesting to see the webs produced by Spiders whacked out on acid !

Formed part of the strategy for war arena tactical methods in the good old days

fast bloke

looks like caffine does most damage

BrettC

'Their experiments have shown that common house spiders spin their webs in different ways according to the psychotropic drug they have been given. Spiders on marijuana made a reasonable stab at spinning webs but appeared to lose concentration about half-way through. Those on Benzedrine - "speed" - spin their webs "with great gusto, but apparently without much planning leaving large holes", according to New Scientist magazine.

Caffeine, one of the most common drugs consumed by Britons in soft drinks, tea and coffee, makes spiders incapable of spinning anything better than a few threads strung together at random. On chloral hydrat, an ingredient of sleeping pills, spiders "drop off before they even get started".'

I hope they provided a little safety web underneath!

http://www.amphetamines.com/benzedrine-spider.html
http://www.biopsychiatry.com/chloralhydrate.html

Ubik

Oh dear! Its the only thing on the list I use.

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

Too right! That's if for me! LSD first thing in the morning now!