Plenty!

This 5mm long native orb web spider has captured two victims in her 10cm wide web. The long one in the rear is a common grass moth, but I can’t guess what the other is. It has a curled up proboscis and smooth antennae of a butterfly, but the bushy tail has me stumped. The spider, on the other hand, I’m pretty sure is a Colaranea verutum.

Edit: Two days later I saw a little copper butterfly on the same bush as this spider's web. It was the same size as the front victim.

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