For the last 2 nights, my spider has spun webs only about 2/3 the normal size I've seen before .. I'm thinking that she's not catching enough bugs to make the bigger web. It takes a lot of energy to spin a web and I found out that spiders that spin orbed webs actually eat their webs when they take down their webs in the morning .. the silk has some protein in it. What an awesome recycler!