Nephila pilipes's Breakfast

I found this spider having it's breakfast, a moth, right beside my house. It's been there for about 3 weeks now. It's a Nephila pilipes spider is a species of golden orb-web spider. Females are large and grow to a body size of 30–50 mm (overall size up to 20 cm), with males growing to 5–6 mm. It is one of the biggest spiders in the world. 

Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Nephilidae
Genus: Nephila
Species: N. pilipes
Binomial name : Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793)





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