After one day, six out of 25 individuals had not rebuilt their webs, and after two days three individuals had still not attempted web reconstruction. Two of these three had seemingly abandoned their webs completely, and the third did no rebuilding but remained living in his web. Lastly, I found no significant relationship between the rate of reconstruction and the size of the spider. My hypotheses, that spider size among T. radiata is correlated to the area and strand density of its web, were not supported. Furthermore, the hypothesis that spider size is related to the rate at which spiders reconstruct their webs after being completely destroyed was not significant.
Spiders face a series of trade-offs in web design considerations.
In order to calculate the rates of web reconstruction, I used the original web sizes as the standard towards which I assumed the new webs were being reconstructed. The original webs, however, were of unknown age and differences in areas or densities over different sized spiders could be a result of this uncontrolled factor. Studies have shown that a slue of different factors can influence the components of web design. As T. radiata has scarcely been studied, the type and amount of effect these considerations have on this particular species is unknown. When assessing the quality of a web site, she includes nurmerous site characteristics, both positive and negative.