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Online Exhibits: Arachnid Addicts
Web-spinning is a basic spider behavior. In an experiment, various drugs were dissolved in water and fed to spiders with an eye dropper. What effect did the different drugs have on the web-spinning behavior of spiders? Click on each drug below to see examples of webs spun under the influence of that drug.
| Normal | Mescaline |  Amphetamine |
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| Spider web images originally appeared in A Spider's Web by Peter N. Witt, Charles F. Reed and David B. Peakall. Copyright 1968 by Springer-Verlag. | ||
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