Spiny with jackpot buffet

[Prajwal J Ullal]

ID: Spiny orb weaver with Horsefly catch?

While exploring the monsoon revived trail, spotted this beauty slightly off the trail, perfectly protected by several tall bushes. Though initially the location seemed odd, but by the time we could reach near it and get some frames we could witness it catching 4 flies, two tiny flies while a but later two massive horsefly type flies, probably a mating pair, not sure though. The busy predator just kept on catching and wrapping them one at a time all along the web and getting the tiny ones to the centre of the web and wrapping them together, seemed as if it had hit a jackpot breakfast buffet.

EXIF:
Canon 80D
Canon 100mm macro
F/11
Shutterspeed 1/125
ISO 500
Handheld, External flash fired

Location: Nagla trail

[Mrudul Godbole]

What a big catch . Its good you could observe its catching behavior. The vertical composition looks good. Thanks for sharing.