I fear the giving mankind a dependence on anything for support in age or sickness, besides industry and frugality during youth and health, tends to flatter our natural indolence, to encourage idleness and prodigality, and thereby to promote and increase poverty, the very evil it was intended to cure.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Because, on a good day, 2020 is an ongoing dumpster fire, the animal of the year for 2020 is Zoropsis spinimana, Mediterranean Spiny False Wolf Spider!
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In 1995 NASA published it’s findings on the effects of common recreational drugs and toxins on the behavior and web building characteristics of spiders. It was only a preliminary report though and didn’t provide any insight into the long-term effects of various drugs upon the spiders’ behavior and web weaving.
Fortunately others have continued where NASA left off:
Spiders On Drugs – A Tangled Web Indeed
H/T to SwittersB & Fly Fishing for finding this great piece on YouTube.
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