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Figure 2. Selected web samples from two spiders: one heavily-fed spi- 
der and one light-fed spider. Webs are from the periods measured in 
Table 1 and are all reproduced to the same scale. Note that while both 
the heavy-fed and light-fed animals began with webs of similar size, after 
two weeks of differential feeding the large, heavy-fed spiders’ webs had 
increased in size while the webs of the small, light-fed spiders remained 
the same size. 
