This Garden Cross Spider has her eyes on a butterfly chrysalis that has landed in her web.
Quite tricky to pierce the hard shell. She was taking her time so I don't know if she got her juicy meal or whether she cut the pupa out of her web.
These are the spiders whose large orb webs show up so well in the dew or frost.
By the time the frost comes the females will have deposited their eggs in a weatherproof cocoon and perished in the cold, never to see their offspring emerge.
Sad but time-honoured.
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