When taking the pictures for the figure panels there were a few elements that I considered to make controls. I used the back of a ucard as a way to create a scale so that the size of the spider web could be compared to demonstrate size because all UMass students have a ucard, so whoever was recreating the image could use the same object to scale. The orientation of the ucard was also a control. The location of the images was a control and the time of day in which the picture was taken. The format of the figure panel was a control although the platform used to create the figure panel may not have been because not everyone has access to inkscape, although in this case it seems the person did use the same platform to create the image.
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At 9:50 in the morning I entered Morrill 2 from the front of the building (the side facing the rest of campus). I went up one flight of stairs and walked to the back stairwell and left through that door. I was now facing the area of campus where Frank dining hall is. At 9:55 in the morning, I took a picture of the spider web in the bottom left corner of the glass door. I was standing outside and saw a web in the corner of the glass frame. I squatted like a duck and held the back of my ucard up to the web, at this time there was a little spider.
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