Peter N. Witt

Drugs alter web-building of spiders: A review and evaluation

Systems Research and Behavioral Science 1971 Peter N. Witt 52 citations

Twenty-two years of investigation of spider-web-building and its sensitivity to drugs has produced insight into this invertebrate behavior pattern and its vulnerability. Most data were collected by measuring and analyzing photographs of webs built under different circumstances; groups of web data were subjected to statistical comparisons. Another approach was through analysis of motion pictures...