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2011, Advances in Insect PhysiologyCitation Excerpt :The simplest question to ask is how do spiders respond to low prey density or starvation? Several early studies suggested that starved spiders increase the overall sizes of orb webs (Higgins and Buskirk, 1992; Sherman, 1994; Witt et al., 1968), although this effect was not universal (Vollrath and Samu, 1997; Witt et al., 1968). Regardless, larger orb webs might be interpreted as increased foraging effort (e.g. Eberhard, 1986; Venner et al., 2000, 2006; Watanabe, 2001) because of the direct influence of the size of capture area on the potential number of prey intercepted by orb webs.
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