This is an interactive video of Spiders On Drugs. It’s educational and allows you to participate by selecting the type of drug given to the spider; once drugged, the spider will then weave his web demonstrating just how damaging drugs can be to insects and humans!
Although the animations are added for effect, the completed web is completely real and based on studies discussed below.
A test was performed were spiders were given a number of drugs which included LSD, Caffeine, Mescaline and Hash.
The spiders on drugs would weave a spider web and then the web would be analyzed. The end results were amazing and produced some very strange looking designs.
This animation allows you to feed your spider one of the drugs mentioned above. Once the spider consumes the drug, it sets out to build the spider web.
The end result, the final spider web, is the actual design created by the spider on that particular drug* but the actual process of creating that web is embellished a bit : )
However, if you feed the spider the regular fly, the web and process of creating that web is an accurate representation and not embellished.
Effects of Drugs on the brain
Spiders on Caffeine
The picture below is of a spider web who was on Caffeine, this web seems to be the most confusing design of all – perhaps I should stop drinking Dew!!!
Spider on Mescaline
This spider web below was made by a spider who ate a fly filled with Mescaline, the extract from peyote used in native American religious ceremonies.
Spider Web – Hash
The image below is what happens when a spider eats a fly injected with hash. Not a big change from the picture above but the spider web is missing more.
Spider on LSD
Here is what you get when you have a spider that is on LSD. The spider just forgot the detail, a major portion of the web!
Spider Webs
The spider web below is a normal web and was made by a spider free of drugs!
As you can see, the drug that caused the spider to weave a completely whacked out web was Caffeine. Makes you wonder if the same proportion were given to a human what the effect would be!
Now, ask yourself this, what in the world did the spiders take that built this Giant Spider Web? And to think they had to communicate to make it all happen – send chills down my spine!
* I have spent a lot of time on the web researching the tops of ‘spiders on drugs’. My findings are based on tests completed by universities and other creditable resources. If you find something that may be of value to our readers or a correction, please post – thank you!
And, if you want something completely unrealistic but entertaining, see our Spider on Crack page 🙂
i figured caffeine would just make the spider go faster and be more happy about having to do it lol. i was curious about the cocaine spider so i google imaged it.. but there wasn’t one.
Hilarious videos. Do pets people think plants are alive or not? Without plants and trees we would have less oxygen. To Jackie your points are understood but consider that there are more spiders on our planet than humans. Humanlife
Really fascinating video. My research focuses on spinning fibers like this using electric fields targeted towards biomedical applications.
Spider silk is regarded as one of the strongest materials available naturally and I am curious to know if these tests or experiments assessed the strength of fibers made after the different diets.
Overall, the comments on here are funnier than the video. Don’t get me wrong, i love the video. I am just entertained by some peoples pro-spider attitude. I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that if at the moment they were expressing their disapproval for “spider abuse” a spider was to crawl across the keyboard, they would instinctively kill it. The research has also proved to me that acid, weed and mescaline are relatively safe compared to caffeine. Which is awesome because I love to trip and get high. Coffee isn’t really so enjoyable to me.
And the hammock, great add-on. Or did the THC induced spider actually spin a silk hanging mattress to wait for his prey…
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!!!! KOOOL!!!
Very good in all aspects including education.
Good way to learn about drugs…!!!!
But wish they could have tested on other insects tooo….!!!!!
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!
there is a reason they act like that. it is wrong. nothing is supposed to use it.
when was this done when did you put this information???
AMAZING WORK!
It was both entertaining and informative! excellent!
thank you
Kaan
Hi,
I have seen this presentation, well, of actual spider webs at a drug and alcohol forum and want to get a copy of it for my corporate driver training package.
Do you have it and are you willing to share? Otherwise, can I get a copy of your animations?
Kind regards,
Adam Paterson
Australia
www.thedrivesafeacademy.com.au
wow, that was REALLY funny i wish that he was my pet! but i guess i would get bitten a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The caffeine spider got totally jewed on all aspects of this deal. All the other spiders got high or tripped out. I’m thinking about giving some PCP to these wolf spiders I keep finding to take care of these mice that crap all over my garage.
Speaking as someone who works in cancer research, if you’re upset by scientists testing the effects of drugs on spiders, you don’t even want to know what we do to mice.
the only creepy thing about spiders are that when you hold them you can’t feel them in your hand
I found this when I was looking up worlds deadliest spiders comment #24 interesting.I found some of this hilarious.
Dan
This was FUNNY AS!!! Laughed so much i nearly fell off my chair!!
I think that some people SERIOUSLY need to chill out!! It was just a bit of fun for those ppl that are having a $h*t fit over this!!! RELAX and go have another herbal tea and get over it!!
Also isnt the meaning of humane inflicting as little pain as possible?? i am sure that these spiders would have felt nothing but the clouds they were floating on!!! So CHILL!!!!!
In the the spiders on crack video that has caused such controversy, I would like to point out that there is no scientific method shown in the experiment. the effects of a drug tested on an organism that is greatly different from any mammal and more especially any human cannot provide results that prove or predict human behavior.
I am deathly afraid of spiders! I hate to break it to you, but if I see a spider, I kill it immediately…well, after breaking into a cold sweat and screaming like a little girl of course. This video was quite humorous, thank you for posting it!
For the record: if I were a spider, I’d rather be given acid than be squashed by a giant human, ha ha.
jackie lsd does not cause people to jump art linkletters daughter was tested and they found none of the substance in her it is very unlikely that that had anything to do with it
and cool site
Anyway, you know when people say someone wouldn’t hurt a fly? Yeah, I’m that person. I can’t even kill bugs without feeling bad. However, I don’t think the spider really suffered too terribly and it was for research. I doubt you have a problem with people using mice for cancer research.
Anyway, I thought the little video was pretty cool!! Crazy that caffeine produced the strangest web!!
Mr. Jim – Wonderful, hilarious video! I only wish I could have seen the “crack” one. From the partial description above, it sounded very funny.
Don’t let the humorless get ya down! ; )
Wow. Hate to break it to around half of you boys and girls, but your spelling and/or grammar is terrible. Not that it matters, but I just find it humorous that you try to discredit someone else for spelling when your own spelling skills are lacking.
Ifound this site to be excellently formatted, with proper information. Kudos for making it so well. And, I must admit, your animations are quite hilarious.
As for the whole “animal rights” and whatnot… I don’t like the idea of putting animals under what we would consider as torture- then again, most people have an anthropomorphizing nature about the interpretation of pain. However, I do see why it is necessary- look at all of the medical/psychological benefits that we have attained from animal testing. (with that said, I DO disagree with using animals to test shampoo- that’s ridiculous).
Spiders are fascinating creatures!!!
If this “Spiders On Drugs” video/”scientific experiment” is the one I’m thinking about, I can’t believe so many people are still falling for it. It was mildly realistic up until the part about the pimp spider shooting another spider… or something. Er, yeah… are people actually dense enough to believe that that’s something spiders will actually do? Whether they’re high or not, it’s not very plausible, is it? And I doubt spiders react the same way to drugs as a human would, anyway. But I’ve never tried it, so who knows. But that video was obviously fake. Hilarious (and actually made me find spiders *endearing* for a split second), but fake.
Seriously, your interactive video had me rolling on the floor, with tears streaming down my face.
And as if that wasn’t funny enough, I started reading some of the comments and comment #2 almost made me pee my pants!!
People need to get a sense of humor…
Thanks for all the great info on this site…very helpful!
This is so darn funny I saved it when I need comic relief in my day! Still laughing
hi, just a quick note…i was bitten by a spider (we think a spider) last night, so i have been surfing for information, maybe to see a bite that looks similar to mine, or somehow figure out what spider bit me….did i mention that i have a PHOBIA of spiders! so being bitten really freaked me out.
BUT, then i came across your site. i watched the spider build it’s web, and i am surprised to say that i felt no fear at all watching the videos. it felt relaxing. that the spider said thank you , well that was sort of endearing. i too felt sorry for a spider being given acid, but realize they probably ingest worse on the streets. this is the FIRST TIME i’ve read or looked at anything to do with spiders and NOT feel afraid. amazing, especially since i have a bite on my arm. time for some caffine for me! thanks, i will remember the spider in your video when i feel afraid of spiders.
peace
ally
who feed you all what type of drugs to make a flash movie of a spider on drugs and how they would spend a web on them i have a black widow spider in a jar i need to know where i can find food for in dec in ky. it is hard 2 find incects i just found the spider in my garage
i thought that spiders on drugs was cool. on the caffeine one at the start he must have been on drugs because he was trying to be spider man
i remember a time magazine article in the early ninety’s that had pictures of spider webs on certain drugs. weed, normal,angel dust and i can’t remember the other. the angel dust was scary looking and the worst.
This is really interesting… I was surprised to see how much the spider is affected by caffeine. Stark contrast in comparison with what we humans classify as “mind-altering” drugs. Since LSD, mescaline and hashish work on receptors in OUR brains that do not necessarily exist in less complex lifeforms, I’m surprised that there is any effect at all. I don’t think there is much scientific merit to these types of studies… what are we trying to accomplish here? Finally, I’m not the least bit worried about the effect that these drugs had on the spiders… Had the drugs affected the spiders in a profound way, it would have had a much more noticeable effect in their webs. For their sake though… try to keep flies out of your coffee!!!
@Jackie: Haven’t you ever killed a spider? Or a bee? Or a mosquito? I understand that giving drugs to a spider is not the most humane thing in the world, but animal testing has contributed a great deal to society, and this is not a horribly big deal.
There’s a poster that has animal rights protestors on it, and says “Thanks to animal research, you have 20 more years to protest animal research.”
Did you know that several food colorings are made from ground up insects? And gelatin is made from horses? And gelatin is in a LOT of food. I have issues with my joints, and have to take a gelatin supplement. There’s lots of gray area.
And the spider’s capacity for consciousness is probably very very small, smaller than that of a rat.
Regarding comment #24, please keep in mind that the drugs in question are plant-derived secondary compounds and most likely evolved in plants to deter predators. Since common predators of plants are invertebrates (insects mostly), it’s not surprising that something like caffeine that has a mild effect on humans has a much more powerful effect on invertebrates, including spiders. Indeed, many of the spices and herbs we enjoy get their flavor from a plant secondary compound that is meant to deter insects. You can’t draw too many parallels between humans and arthropods!
Jackie a spider lacks the mental capacity to experience a “bad trip” on LSD if you were a science teacher im sure you’d know that.
Hey there, Mattress (Jan, 3rd). How could you NOT know how to operate this site? Everyone else seems to have worked it out. And as for the shocking spelling in school-teacher Jackie’s comments – need I say anymore? This site was cool, well done.
haha this is brilliant
very educational
okay i’ll be honest, i’m so arachnophobic i can barely look at a picture of a spider without breaking a cold sweat, but this was an adorable video and your site is very informative. props.
btw, the crack spider video is funny as hell, and for the record i don’t like animal testing either- even on spiders which i despise- but would you rather test a chemical on an animal with a three-week lifespan, or a human being? that’s what i thought.
I could not find any buttons or directions on how to use this. please upgrade site. otherwise the rest of the site is quite informative and very interessting
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more hash please
info about the experiment;
In 1995, NASA’s Dr. David Noever and his fellow researchers at the Marshall Space Flight Center studied the webs spun by common house spiders (Araneus diadematus) dosed with several drugs, including LSD, marijuana, benzedrine, chloral hydrate and caffeine. The more toxic the drug, the less organized the web the spider created. The spider on marijuana drifted off before finishing the job. The spider on benzedrine, an upper, worked energetically but without much planning. The spider dosed with chloral hydrate, a sedative, soon fell asleep. To the surprise of Dr. Noever et al, caffeine did the most damage of all the substances tested. The spider dosed with it proved incapable of creating even a single organized cell, and its web showed no sign of the “hub and spokes” pattern fundamental to conventional web design. What does the web of a caffeinated spider (which can hardly be accustomed to the jolt of a morning latte) have to do with human behavior? Unlikely as it sounds, it may be the most vivid illustration of caffeine’s disorienting effect on caffeine-sensitive people, many of whom may be misdiagnosed as mentally ill.
Jackie (#2) go hug a tree you happy hippy. I kill spiders with no regret and no remorse. What are you going to do about it? Nothing. I also kill roaches and ants in my house, so get real!
I love this…the spider is so polite… saying thank you!!! wow… my favorite is the Hash fly… he ended up falling asleep!!! LOVE IT!!! i hate spiders… but this lil guy is a cutie!!! LOL 🙂
hhahahaah thanks for the laughter, didn’t expect all this!!
This website is every cool it shows people of all ages how bad these spiders are AND THIS WEBSITE SHOWS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. Thanks for reading this, Krista
that was so funny me and kaytlin fell on the floor!!!!!!!!
very cool. note how bad a drug caffeine is…
A friend of mine who lives in Brisbane, doctor Aidan Lamb, spent some time developing an experiment similar to the ‘spiders on drugs’ in which the spiders where administered various drugs. The effects of drugs on most spiders is scientifically known to be short term in small and controlled doses. I personally believe this endeavor was completely worth it considering a mere spiders life was a stake.
In regards to JACKIE,
If you are a science teacher, I suggest that you should get over your fear of watching animals being mistreated. Obviously, you have some issues as you had a very immature approach. Get over it, spiders don’t live long anyway!
Reppin to DR. Aidan Lamb
Zach
I thought that spider on drugs video was really funny and the other people ragging on jacki really need to get a grip…on their lack of humor. “grumpy prunes” I can’t wait to have my friends link onto jacki and watch da spida bust a cap in the otha one…whoo..hoo this the kind of humor most normal people have…and love to see…read…and watch There is so… much sadness….murder…and rotten people in the world that it’s nice to be surprised and get your funny bone touched…you go..people….get those sick and twisted…”fictional” video’s out there..
I saw a tv show on this study years ago, it was shocking to me. I was suprised at how crazy Caffiene is! Thanks for creating this, it will be fun to pass on to friends, as I am always telling them about the study I saw.
Thanks. Even if spiders don’t really act that stupid, its got my 6-year old’s attention about the ill effects of drugs!
I just got bit by 15 orb spiders can I die from this???
I wish they would do these drug experiments on me 🙂
I just watched this video and laughed so hard I cried!
I would think an ex teacher would be able to spell better than you jackie, I would also assume a teacher would be happy to learn what is actually happening with certain drugs. The drugs could be tested on humans I suppose, But a lot more people would be upset by that, I am guessing. We would all be better off if folks would kept their un-educated opinions to themselves. p.s. a little help for jackie ,quote, feelings, taught, my ex, graphics
I don’t think a spider’s brain has the same chemical serotonin and other neurotransmitter processes as humans do. LSD was synthesized and (accidnetally) tested on human brain and similar brains. The small, invertebrate feature of the spider brain makes it possible and highly likely that LSD may not even have a reaction to the spider. I would love to see the research results on this study, if it even exists.
Jackie, please understand. It’s just a spider and it probably loved tripping. It’s the same thing as a spider in the wild stumbling upon some peyote (cactus) and having the best trip of it’s life.
This is a RIOT!!! we just laughed our arse’s off. PEOPLE…THE CRACK SPIDER DIDN’T REALLY SHOOT THE OTHER SPIDER..IT’S A JOKE PLEASE GO GET A SENSE OF HUMOR
Great job!! Thanks for the laughs!!
Grow up Jackie…who cares what happens to spiders? You really think they get their feelings hurt or something? What makes you think they get scared anyway? There’s no proof out there that spiders react the same mental way to drugs that we do.
I watched that video and thought it was uncouth.
In the video, I don’t think they really gave the spider anything, it’s just part of the act.
I’m not into using animals for testing, but I know that it is widely accepted in the scientific community.
This is the spider on crack video I am talking about. I realize that you did not give drugs to the spider. It was a research project and that “quote” Scientist” end quote” did the research. Watch this video and then tell me it is not sad. Over all I really like your site and I don’t want you to think I am pounding you about the spider. As a matter of fact the graphics are really cool. I even played with feeding the spider in you graphic area.
But my point here is the research. I just don’t approve of certain things. I thought 6th grade science and my X taught 8th grade science. I have preformed a lot of experiments myself. I just have really bad feelings about doing something like that to a tiny creature.
Thanks for the comment Lauren and Zach!
Jackie,
I didn’t do the spiders on drugs experiment, the information was gathered from scientists who did the research.
The animation of the spider weaving its web is not how they actually function, it was just created from the mind to make the video fun to watch. However, the final web derived from the building of the spider web while on that drug is accurate – at least as accurate as I could find.
So, please don’t blame me – I have never given a spider a drug of any kind. Also, I would imagine that the spiders on drugs recovered from their experience.
Regards,
Jim.
I know that there are different things scientist do for research, but I watched a video of a spider on LSD and I was really bothered by it. The thing about LSD is that a person that takes it is usually aware of what will happen before taking it or has some one there to “lead” them through it. There have been people that committed suicide from taking it from being so “freaked out” by the experience. (Art Linkletters daughter- for instance) A spider on the other hand has no idea what is going on, is totally freaked out and scared from not knowing what is going on, and I feel that is a wrong…sooooo wrong thing to do to a creature that has no idea what you are doing to them. I think it is cruel. If you are going to do something like that, do it to a willing participant, not one of God’s creatures that would never come in contact with something like that in the first place much less agree to taking hard drugs. I think that who ever would do something like that to a spider or any other creature is sadistic and just wants to hurt the spider and get a laugh. Shame on you!
we really like this video…cool dude