The findings stated above could be attributed to a number of different explanations and we will now discuss a subset of them. For the observation that the warm condition and the control condition resulted in a similar amount of web production, the increase in temperature did not seem affect the spider's ability to construct webs. Perhaps the temperature we raised the enclosures to (28.2 degree celsius) were not enough to make a meaningful impact on the amount of web produced. Another possibility is that the increase in heat actually affect the spider’s ability to produce normal web; maybe they did make a larger web but the heat caused it to comprised of thinner strands.
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