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Article: THE EFFECTS OF Alcohol on Spiders: What Happens to Web Construction After Spiders Consume Alcohol?
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- The American Biology Teacher
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Not all spiders spin webs; the spiders that do, spin them in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. As a matter of fact, some species of spiders have been described by their unique web design, and the spiders themselves have never been captured (Dr. Joseph Culin, personal communication, 2003).
A German scientist, Peter Witt, studied the web spinning habits of spiders. This research was made difficult by the fact that the spiders Witt observed did not begin spinning webs until long after dark, and it was not unusual for the observations to run into the early hours of the morning. Witt wondered if feeding drugs to the spiders would cause them to spin their webs at a different time of day, making ...
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