TIL in 1995 NASA tested psychoactive compounds on spiders. Each drug affected their web patterns differently.
Here’s a more detailed description for those that like to read up: rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-exper…
Curiously enough when a similar experiment was first performed decades earlier the original intent was to get the spiders to weave their webs during different times of the day, rather than alter the pattern.
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