[randerson]

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]

Salient point:

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

[radlad]

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

[burnte]

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

[celticninja]

what about spiderman?

[Lio]

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